Post #903473
2026-02-03 07:56 UTC
This has been a fascinating experience, working on a rust service for $dayjob that ingests data whose shape and meaning in the domain was unknown to me at the beginning of the month.
It’s been a lassoing experience: hold the data as loosely as possible (as json), then gradually define it as necessary. Opposite to most of my rust experience, where “thinking about the exact structure of the data” had been front-loaded.
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@Fishrock@mastodon.social 2026-02-03 08:13
@isntitvacant@hachyderm.io pah who needs Value when &[u8] will do just fine
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@yosh@toot.yosh.is 2026-02-03 08:38
@isntitvacant@hachyderm.io I stored JSON directly in a SQL database for the first time last month, and I felt similar hah.