I gave the team a half-hour crash course in jq, some of the key features of its data and execution model, and how to do a handful of useful everyday things.

After, I had so many questions for myself that I spent over an hour learning more jq. I now have a greater understanding for how brilliant the language is, and I would do that crash course differently.

I think I owe @hpr an episode, if there isn't one.

I found many cheat sheets and liked none of them. A cheat sheet would be perfect to go in the show notes.

#jq

Hi geeks! 👋

I just open sourced a repo that you may appreciate if you want to ramp-up on jq.
There are 20+ test cases for which you have to provide a jq query that turns the input into the expected output.
It is available here: 👉 https://codeberg.org/gturri/jq-quest 👈

(please let me know if you have any feedback about it! 🙂 )

#jq #tutorial #geek

Looking through my #Mastodon archive is pretty neat. My toots, boosts, favorites, and bookmarks are all there, and I can extract whatever information I want (e.g. a list of the URLs of all the posts I've boosted) using #jq.

I wonder, though. Is there a viewer program for the #ActivityPub objects in the archive? The JSON representation is pretty hard to read.

Looking through my #Mastodon archive is pretty neat. My toots, boosts, favorites, and bookmarks are all there, and I can extract whatever information I want (e.g. a list of the URLs of all the posts I've boosted) using #jq.

I wonder, though. Is there a viewer program for the #ActivityPub objects in the archive? The JSON representation is pretty hard to read.

mdq - by yshavit

https://github.com/yshavit/mdq

like #jq but for #Markdown: find specific elements in an md doc

Also available as a crate:
https://docs.rs/mdq/latest/mdq/

Tagging @wader 😉

#CLI#Parser #Rust #RustLang

mdq - by yshavit

https://github.com/yshavit/mdq

like #jq but for #Markdown: find specific elements in an md doc

Also available as a crate:
https://docs.rs/mdq/latest/mdq/

Tagging @wader 😉

#CLI#Parser #Rust #RustLang

Today was really satisfying: building the proof of concept for a little web service I've had simmering on the back burner for a while. What's made it fun has been choosing #FreeBSD for the deployment target - which has meant learning a bunch of new-to-me primitives!

I'll toot more about the service once it's "launched" but, as a quick teaser: it'll be handy for folks who (like me!) never managed to get their heads around #jq, but still need to transform data at the CLI e.g. inside CI 😀🤔