I've been thinking about restarting work on #Tapir. Development stopped because I hit a wall with the database system. Writing Tapir in #Deno was a long sequence of yak-shaving without much payoff; most of my dev time was spent implementing JSON-LD, Web Signatures, and a database layer that should have been a library if Deno had better Node compatibility at the time.
We are involved in many open source and open data activities, as we want to support the community. These are projects that we use every day or used to rely on
Also, Honk is super easy to set up (Go, Sqlite, one binary), it's just also extremely confusing (intentionally so, I think?) Let me know if you figure out what a "bonk" or "xonk" or "badonk" is, because it doesn't tell you.
Happy #WorldTapirDay! These paintings of an adult & juvenile Malayan #Tapir (Tapirus indicus) are 2 of the 477 watercolors of flora & fauna by Chinese artists commissioned by William Farquhar when he was the Resident of Malacca from 1803-18, now in the National Museum of Singapore:
Long ago, I was checking on a pregnant Malayan #tapir who was due. She had given birth, but hadn't ripped open the placenta & the baby wasn't moving. I moved mum away & found the placenta was cold, which is not good. I ripped the placenta open and massaged her lungs to get her to start breathing, which I was overjoyed to see worked. The intern with me was crying nonstop & it was all I could do not to join her when I introduced mum back in with her. My life is awesome sometimes. #animals