Jared

Most JSON libraries give you a choice between two formatting options.

Minified JSON is very efficient, but difficult for a person to read.

Most beautified slash indented JSON, on the other hand, is too spread out, often making it difficult to take in quickly or to scan for specific information.

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Enter fractured JSON, which provides a middle ground, trying to format data like a person would.

The end result is pretty great, especially if reading JSON output is relatively new to you.

Eventually, your brain does the translating.

the great flood of adequate software.

Here's Scott Werner, quote, Someone recently said to me that there was a last time you and your friends played outside as kids and nobody knew it was the last time.

That made me realize that there was also a last time you clicked close on that WinRAR evaluation notice.

One day you just stop seeing it, and the silence where the nag screen used to be feels louder than the nag screen ever was.

There's this thing about nostalgia that nobody warns you about.

One day you're ignoring WinRAR's 40-day trial notification for the 4,000th time, and the next day you're actually kind of missing it.

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Scott thinks we're about to experience a storm of Thursday afternoon projects being released to the world, not revolutionary, world-changing projects, just adequate ones.

You can't design software you don't work on.

Here's Sean Gidecki with another banger, quote, Only the engineers who work on a large software system can meaningfully participate in the design process.

That's because you cannot do good software design without an intimate understanding of the concrete details of the system.

In other words, generic software design advice is typically useless for most practical software design problems, end quote.

Unfortunately, this is the only kind of advice you'll read in software books and blog posts.