The article compares Labeled Property Trees with JSON, XML, and MsgPack, highlighting MsgPack's efficiency in storage and transmission despite its lack of human readability.
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Trump's abduction of Maduro may strengthen his political position but risks normalizing dangerous precedents in international relations and could have severe geopolitical repercussions.
6.2The Boats!
2025-12-27 • trade venezuela caribbean sea fish market curaçao liqueur
The post highlights the innocence of Venezuelan traders at Curaçao's floating market, contrasting their daily struggles with the misconceptions surrounding narcotics trafficking in the Caribbean.
0Quality Culture
2025-01-23 • open source software development quality free software
The author discusses the culture of quality in open source software, emphasizing the need for a balance between encouraging contributions and maintaining high standards. He reflects on the guilt he feels for not finishing a projec...
The author shares a list of books and papers they read in 2024, providing brief reviews for each. The list includes a variety of genres and topics, from literary fiction to time travel epics and geopolitical analysis.
0Four Years of Jai
2024-12-02 • programming software review jai
The text is a review of the Jai programming language by Smári McCarthy. The author discusses the lost era of good software, the slow and buggy nature of modern software, and the emergence of new languages like Rust, Zig, Nim, Odin...
The text explains the Icelandic voting system, which uses a biproportional apportionment system. It describes the divisor rules, the allocation of constituency and adjustment seats, and the flaws in the current method. The author ...
Israel has begun its second land war of the last 12 months by invading Lebanon. The current escalations are entirely being driven by Israel, and the only real beneficiaries of Israeli escalation are the top political tier of Israe...
The author announces his travel plans to California and Nevada, with an open schedule to meet new people and discuss various topics related to his company, Ecosophy, and other interests.
The text discusses the problems with JSON as a data format, highlighting its slowness and potential dangers, particularly in handling numbers. It suggests that JSON is not optimized for machine processing and proposes using other ...
The text discusses the problems with graphical widget sets and UI toolkits, and how they have led to the decline of desktop programs. It also explores the rise of web technologies for application UIs and the challenges and benefit...
The author left Iceland due to health issues and burnout, and is currently staying in Curaçao. The change in environment has improved the author's health and has given them space to think and reevaluate things. They are also findi...
The author discusses the challenges of parsing XML and the process of creating an XML parser. They compare different XML parsing libraries and share their experience in building an XML parser from scratch.