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In this Tidbit version of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots interviews Mattias Wadman, one of the maintainers of the jq project. This was great fun as we just finished learning jq in Programming…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
PBS Tidbit 7 – jq to Analyze macOS Installed Apps with Helma van der Linden on
In this special tidbit installment of Programming By Stealth, Helma van der Linden joins Allison to walk through how she solved a real-world problem using jq. The problem to be solved was a need to a…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
PBS 169 of X — Advanced YAML Topics
In this second (and final) installment about YAML, Bart teaches us who to write multi-line strings and how not to write multi-line strings. He teaches us about String Blocks which is a bit head-bendy…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
PBS 168 – Introduction to YAML
In Programming By Stealth, we've completed our series on the jq language and now Bart Busschots brings us a two-part miniseries about the YAML data format. He takes us through the history of data for…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
PBS 167 of X – jq: Recursion, Syntactic Sugar, Some old Friends and a Few Honourable Mentions
It was actually bittersweet for Bart and me this week as he taught the final installment in our series of Programming By Stealth about jq. As Bart says partway through our recording, he thought this …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
PBS 166 of X — jq: Processing Arrays & Dictionaries sans Explosion
In this penultimate jq episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart introduces us to three new ways to process arrays and dictionaries without exploding them first. I know that sounds crazy – we've always…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
PBS 165 of X – jq: Variables
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart explains why jq is uniquely designed not to need variables (most of the time) and then explains how to use them in the few instances when there's n…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
PBS 164 of X – jq: Working with Lookup Tables
In our previous episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots taught us how to create lookup tables with jq from JSON data using the `from_entries` command. Just when we have that conquered, this…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
PBS 163 of X – jq: Lookups & Records
In this episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots as usual works through his solution to the challenge from last time, and as usual I learn a lot more about how to use jq to solve problems. H…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
PBS 162 of X — jq: Altering Arrays & Dictionaries
Bart Busschots is back to teach us how to alter arrays and dictionaries in JSON files using jq. Bart went through his challenge solution on cleaning up the Nobel Prize database and I learned a lot fr…
Published on 1 year, 8 months ago