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Len :tootsie: 🍉 @[email protected] · 2025-08-21 · 09:01 UTC

I really appreciate this "small" peace of software called #jq Took me a while to understand the syntax rules but now it is pure joy whenever I have to use it. Other honorable mentions in this bag of enjoyable tools are #xq, #jless and the daily driver #curl. CLI ftw.

https://jqlang.org/

#jq #xq #jless #curl

silverpill @[email protected] · 2025-04-24 · 12:06 UTC

XQ

https://github.com/misskey-dev/xq

This must be a part of the plan to turn Misskey into proprietary silo. ATProto and Nostr creators at least tried to solve a real problem, but arguments for creating this protocol are incredibly weak:

>Messages are in plain JSON format, which is wasteful

Message size is not a bottleneck in Fediverse.

>Having schema definitions

https://json-schema.org/

>Statically-typed-language-friendly structure.

Skill issue. Many Fediverse projects use statically typed languages.

>Eliminate unnecessary data and boilerplate by focusing on microblogging for its intended use

There is no boilerplate other than @context. It can be dropped without making your implementation completely incompatible with everything else.

>Allows multiple messages to be combined into a single request to reduce overhead.

Use a different inbox that supports batching:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/0499/fep-0499.md

#ActivityPub #XQ

#activitypub #xq

skunksarebetter @skunksarebetter · 2021-12-03 · 07:31 UTC

#yq is a #CLI #YAML processor.

yq is a preprocessor for #jq which converts YAML into JSON, processes the data with standard jq, finally outputting YAML. yq has the ability to preserve custom tags and formatting, allowing for more accurate round-trip processing. yq also includes #xq for #XML, and #tomlq for #TOML.