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Writing, Technically with James Somers

Signals and Threads

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The Read Me of a Tool for Querying JSON

It's like a version of XML that dates back to the mid 50s. Your angle brackets, more parentheses. Yeah. So we had this tool and somebody came to me and said, I think we need a better read me. Okay, I'll take a look at this read me. And not to throw the author of this read me under the bus because they produced an incredibly valuable tool but this was not the best document. This was a formal grammar basically that had been cleaned up a little bit for human consumption. The idea that that would be the read me of a tool that was basically like JQ some tool for querying JSON was incredibly frustrating. It was one of the hardest

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