https://jed.codes/tags/tooling/Recent content in Tooling on jed.codesHugoen-usThu, 02 Jul 2026 15:39:53 -0700https://jed.codes/posts/observable-framework-is-core-to-my-process/Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:39:53 -0700https://jed.codes/posts/observable-framework-is-core-to-my-process/<p><img src="https://jed.codes/images/observable-framework-core-to-my-process.png" alt="Stylized illustration of the Observable Framework at the center of a data workflow — a glowing hub labeled &ldquo;Observable Framework&rdquo; with spokes to &ldquo;Data Exploration&rdquo;, &ldquo;Static Site Generation&rdquo;, &ldquo;DuckDB WASM Client&rdquo;, &ldquo;LLM-Friendly Workflow&rdquo;, and &ldquo;Analysis&rdquo;; on the right, sample dashboards for XC ski competitor ranking, S3 lifecycle analysis, CloudTrail structured logs, and impact analysis."></p> <p>One of the first projects I got excited about was <a href="https://rubygems.org/gems/webby">Webby</a> — a small Ruby gem that generated a static site from markdown. Before the <a href="https://jamstack.org/">JAMstack</a> &lsquo;revolution&rsquo;, static sites were a niche, but one that existed for sure. <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a> won that early market.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> Long before NPM supply chain attacks were on anyone&rsquo;s radar, I loved the idea of simple websites with limited upkeep. Yesterday I shipped <a href="https://jed.codes/search/">search for this blog</a> (built on <a href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a>) powered by a precompiled index. Simple, beautiful, future proof.</p>