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Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by pdimitar » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 12:28 AM UTC

Every now and then you just randomly look at HN, stumble upon a tool, read the home page and just 20% in you are gasping "OMG HOW DID I LIVE WITHOUT THIS!".

Yep, `jless` is exactly that kind of tool. Instant favourite, and love at first sight.

Extremely good job, thanks a lot for the tool!

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by gberger » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 12:39 AM UTC

Southland wrote: post #17

What are the odds that 3 separate, years-old accounts came out of the woodworks within the last hour to make their only comments of all time to support this post? 3/14 of the only comments as I make this... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30280084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30277488

They could have sent the link to friends, some of which did not have an account yet but wanted to comment?

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by JonathanMerklin » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 12:57 AM UTC

Wow, thank you so much for sharing this. I'm a frequent jq-to-less piper and probably a more frequent mobile browsing opener of ESPN scoreboards/subsequent grumbler about ESPN's web performance and experience. I think I'll get a lot of mileage out of plaintextsports as long as it stays up. I will also be sure to check out Jless next time I'm at my command line with sufficient bandwidth to tinker with my tooling/workflow. Cheers!

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by graderjs » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 1:21 AM UTC

Southland wrote: post #17

What are the odds that 3 separate, years-old accounts came out of the woodworks within the last hour to make their only comments of all time to support this post? 3/14 of the only comments as I make this... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30280084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30277488

Ha! Says the anon account with not even two pages of comments in 4 years

Why not use your real identity if you're so confident your claim is good?

That's pretty creepy and a bit disgusting to post that on someone's Show HN. Be a nicer human!

Tho.. Yeah... Sadly it does say something about how much HN can still improve it's response to Shows that people get so suspicious if there's too many positive comments and not enough negative ones--that they go looking for 'proof'.

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by graderjs » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 1:31 AM UTC

danso wrote: post #9

Glad I fought the reflex to jump straight into the comments with "So how is this different than jq" and instead actually clicked through to see the wonderful homepage that instantly answered my question via animated GIF. I'm a sucker for trying out any new CLI tool and this looks genuinely and immediately useful. Thanks!

Excellent! The expected future value of the comment thread thanks you for that sterling effort.

It was a pretty wonderful homepage right? I don't have any need for it now whatsoever, but this project looks like a useful debugging tool if you need to reverse engineer undocumented APIs. And the author's write up is comprehensive informative and well written. And their site looks good so this is an awesome Show HN I think.

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by VectorLock » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 1:42 AM UTC

Nicksil wrote: post #28

matthewhartmans wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You go to do what you go to do to promote your side hustle :)

>You go to do what you go to do to promote your side hustle :) No, not here.

Its "Show HN..."

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by graderjs » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 2:10 AM UTC

cyrdax wrote: post #5

ive used this. its awesome!!

Welcome to HN. Sorry some nasty people in the community think you're a fake account. I don't think so. I think you're probably just lurking for many years.

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by pdimitar » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 2:16 AM UTC

Southland wrote: post #17

What are the odds that 3 separate, years-old accounts came out of the woodworks within the last hour to make their only comments of all time to support this post? 3/14 of the only comments as I make this... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30280084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30277488

I mean OK, cool, you have checked, but IMO that's not very relevant.

I genuinely enjoyed the promo site and immediately installed the tool and tried it and loved it. Check my comment history if you like, not a bot or anything, just a normal programmer always in need of more tools to enable and improve his work.

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by graderjs » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 2:16 AM UTC

mimslee32 wrote: post #7

Such a dope and useful tool, gonna be using it a bunch :)

Welcome to HN :) There's always weirdos looking to hate on stuff here, but you didn't deserve to be called a fake account. I think you just read but don't comment. The mean people are just projecting, and suspecting others of what they themselves would do. Sorry they did that to you today.

Re: Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer

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Post by graderjs » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 2:22 AM UTC

andrewjluo wrote: post #6

Relied on this a lot while working on a web scraping project! Crazy useful for quickly parsing long JSON responses.

Awesome! I'm sorry that some creeper singled out your comment as being from a fake account. I think you're just a long time non-commenting participant. Their behavior is not welcome here, and against the site rules, and there's no way they actually have the data to make that claim--but people still make such mean comments sometimes. Sorry you had to face that today.