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Maintaining control of our data with personal databases | N=1 (marcua’s blog)

blog.marcua.net
2025-01-05T21:08:09.440Z
data personal indieweb privacy sql

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The fundamental problem is that in using most modern consumer-oriented applications, we lose control of the data we share with those applications. In creating documents, writing emails, or tracking our exercise or other activities, we share data with an application that’s useful for a particular purpose, but also allow the data live in a database controlled by the application’s owner. With the data outside of our control, it can then be restricted, lost, leaked, sold, resold, and exploited. The groups that control these databases accrue most of the benefits, and we accrue most of the costs.

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Dogsheep | dogsheep.github.io

dogsheep.github.io
2023-03-03T05:38:02.000Z
analytics database personal sqlite data imported:pinboard

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Dogsheep is a collection of tools for personal analytics using SQLite and Datasette.

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Everything I (currently) know about starting and keeping habits in one long manifesto | Way of the Duck by Buster Benson

wayoftheduck.com
2013-03-18T04:52:51.000Z
habits personal decisions life imported:pinboard

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A habit decision is my made-up term for a sentence you write that describes a change in behavior that you intend on applying to yourself. If we were computers, this would be the script you ran on yourself to change yourself in some real way.

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Grafitter // Visualizing Your Life on Twitter, IM, Delicious, and Blogger.

www.grafitter.com
2010-06-06T17:05:57.000Z
grafitter informatics metrics personal data analytics imported:pinboard

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"Grafitter is a personal informatics tool for collecting and exploring information about your habits and patterns."

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but she's a girl... » Using Tinderbox as a task timer

www.rousette.org.uk
2008-09-25T13:00:52.000Z
tinderbox personal data tracking productivity imported:pinboard

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This is just about time tracking, but with personal data tracking looking like the next big thing I wonder how well Tinderbox could be pressed into used in recording and studying personal data points in general?

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The personal service management console « Jon Udell

blog.jonudell.net
2008-01-17T07:05:54.000Z
web20 personal service mashups imported:pinboard

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"it’s becoming impossible to sanely manage and control our growing numbers of service relationships."

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Personal unit tests

hober.backpackit.com
2007-09-24T19:03:52.000Z
tests productivity personal goals imported:pinboard

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"Basically, I’ve made a list of personal unit tests: assertions about myself that I’d like to be true."

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