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Studio Cliffano

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Studio Cliffano is a personal blog at blog.cliffano.com about programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-28, and you can follow it by feed.

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2013–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2013

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for a post on making Ansible's default JSON command output human-readable. The only comment describes using the approach in their own projects.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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  1. The part of ansible that really kind of bugs me isn't the YAML, it's the default JSON output of commands. I ended up integrating this into all my projects: http://blog.cliffano.com/2014/04/06/human-readable-ansible-p... Which fixes the problem (sort of), but I really don't understand why the default isn't looking something like that. It's a real pain parsing through some JSON with a ton of \n...\n...\n...\n's in ord…

    Comment linking /2014/04/06/human-readable-ansible-playbook-log-output-using-callback-plugin/

    on “What if Ansible used XML for configuration management?”
  2. Submitted Voice-Controlled Lamp Using Ninja Blocks as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted QR Code Usage in Japan (2009) as a story · 1 points

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