New blog post for this month's Emacs Carnival on underappreciated built-in Emacs features although I'm cheating because I'm talking about a feature that is not actually built in (and I missed the chance when a previous Emacs carnival was on packages... 🤪). The blog post is about rec mode, an all-text database system.

https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20260602.html

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Emacs carnival: rec mode, an all-text database system

Usually my practice even with small databases has been to pulverize them with a highly normalized schema implemented in #postgres. But this week I discovered GNU #recutils, which seems (together with #emacs #recmode) just right for the early, exporatory phase of an analysis.
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/rec-mode-manual/rec-mode.html
GNU Recutils - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation