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Kelly Brazil
Personal blog · blog.kellybrazil.comprogrammingsystemssecurity
Kelly Brazil writes Brazil's Blog, a personal blog at blog.kellybrazil.com about programming, systems and security. Since 2020, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-19, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kelly Brazil's posts as references for jello, her Python-syntax alternative to jq, and for JC, a tool that converts CLI output to JSON. The comments cite the posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kelly Brazil's musings on cybersecurity, computing, tech, and more.
Most-linked posts?
- /2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alternative-for-pythonistas/3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-03-30
- Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-03
- A New Way to Parse Plain Text Tables2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-28
- Parsing Command Output in Ansible with JC (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-30
What Hacker News says?
jq is a great tool, but my favorite alternative, by far, is jello and the libraries the author has created around it https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alterna...
Comment linking /2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alternative-for-pythonistas/
on “Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq”Submitted Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019) as a story · 238 points
HN discussionSee also: * "Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)" ( https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2019/11/26/bringing-the-unix-ph... ) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28266193 238 points | Aug 22, 2021 | 146 comments * "Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app" ( https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-... ) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29435786 183 points | 11 months ago |…
Comment linking /2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-output-to-your-cli-app/
on “JC – JSONifies the output of many CLI tools”Submitted Tips on adding JSON output to your CLI app as a story · 183 points
HN discussionCommand line output as JSON. Very handy and has parsers for tons of common utilities, written in Python. Blog post with examples here: https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2020/08/30/parsing-command-outp...
Comment linking /2020/08/30/parsing-command-output-in-ansible-with-jc/
on “JC – JSONifies the output of many CLI tools”Submitted Tips on adding JSON output to your command line utility. (2021) as a story · 112 points
HN discussionI gave up on jq and use jello[1][2] instead. gron too looks nice. [1] https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alterna... [2] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello
Comment linking /2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alternative-for-pythonistas/
on “Gron – Make JSON Greppable”Submitted Microservice security design patterns for Kubernetes (2019) as a story · 69 points
HN discussionShameless plug, but I created jello[0] to give you the ease of parsing json in bash, but using python syntax[1] [0] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello [1] https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alterna...
Comment linking /2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alternative-for-pythonistas/
on “Parsing JSON at the CLI: A Practical Introduction to jq and more”Submitted A New Way to Parse Plain Text Tables as a story · 22 points
HN discussionShameless plug, but that was one of the reasons I created jello[0], which allows you to use pure python list/dict/comprehension, etc. syntax. Also, here is a blog post[1] explaining in more detail. [0] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello [1] https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alterna...
Comment linking /2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alternative-for-pythonistas/
on “Parsing JSON at the CLI: A Practical Introduction to jq and more”Submitted Working with JSON in Various Shells as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI have the same issue with jq. I need to use my google fu to figure out how to do anything more than a simple select. I created jello[0], which uses python list and dict syntax to filter JSON. Here's a blog post[1] I wrote that shows how it can be used. [0] https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello [1] https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alterna...
Comment linking /2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alternative-for-pythonistas/
on “Illustrated Jq Tutorial”Submitted JC converts the output of popular commands to JSON for easier parsing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSure thing! https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jello Other languages are superior in their handling of maps/arrays, but Python is just so damned popular now I thought it was a good choice to democratize JSON handling. https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alterna...
Comment linking /2020/03/25/jello-the-jq-alternative-for-pythonistas/
on “Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)”Submitted A new way to parse plain text tables as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted JC Tips and Tricks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Parsing Command Output in Ansible with JC (2020) as a story · 1 points
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