I thought I'd post something for no reason… We're still living in Washington state, I'm still into programming, with much the same hobbies as before. However these days I actually work for money. The company is Shutterstock, and I'm a resident "refactorer" on one of the teams in Search. So ...
Tim Bray beat me to writing about this with some very similar thoughts to mine: Fixing JSON. I especially like his idea about native times, along with prefixing them with @ as a parser hint. I'd like to propose some tweaks however, based on my experience of writing JSON parsers ...
Almost exactly ten years ago on August 14 I wrote on this very blog (albeit in a different language): So on yesterday's night I got worked up and decided to try and write [it]. But on a condition of not dragging it on for many days if it didn't work ...
Working with pure functions is simple: you pass arguments, you get a result — no side effects happen. If, on the other hand, a function does have side effects, like mutating its arguments or global objects, it's harder to reason about. But we've got used to those too: if you ...