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Jan Schaumann (jschauma@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 22:29:08 UTC Jan Schaumann
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The secret language of coders, part N of many. Today: "json"
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1. A table mapping the term "json" to possible meanings: JavaScript Object Notation a human-readable data format combining arrays and key-value pairs the magic needed to get websites and API endpoints to give you useful data unstructured, but at least it doesn't make you yaml thankfully unentangled from JavaScript the illusion of superiority to plain text, but you still need to know the structure and have to parse the whole damn thing before you can process fields a data format that requires at least 5 attempts to extract a nested field using jq(1) because, honestly, '.who[].remembers|{(.the) \"syntax\"}' the reason you're somehow still in love with jq(1) "_comment" : "oh that makes a lot of sense" # it really doesn't, tho Expected another array element at line 2359, column 117 seriously, you can't handle a trailing comma?! still often better -- a lot better -- than the alternatives
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- Jan Schaumann (jschauma@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-May-2023 22:29:09 UTC Jan Schaumann
  
  The secret language of coders, part N of many. Today: "CDN"
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  1. A table mapping the phrase "CDN" to the possible meanings: Content Delivery Network - a network of globally distributed caching servers intended to reduce round-trip time between consumers and content Reverse Proxy as a Service, now also offering DDoS-protection, WAF, Traffic Analytics, and indiscriminately blocking Tor. You can't spell "Zero Trust" without "CDN". Oh, wait, I guess you can. The practical centralization of half the internet's TLS keys in one convenient place, serving the wildest of wildcards. Captcha AI training grounds All sorts of (often actually clever) Anycast, DNS, TLS, and HTTP protocol tricks. CNAMEs, CNAMEs everywhere Somebody else's computers running in places they don't control or jurisdictions you don't want to think about. Confused Deputy, Naturally Write once, run everywhere. I mean: Pop one (system), pwn many (customers). Centralizing the internet by decentralizing your content.
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