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I have no idea what I'm doing, but here Goes #2 Yay! Json!!

Jaimie Carter on June 24, 2019

Well folks if you've been playing along, the goal here is to further make life easier with tWC2k (the Work Chaser 2000!) by automating the never en...
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Peter Witham

I've found that if I search long enough and with enough trial and error, there is usually an API for what I'm looking to do and a script to make it happen. It's always better if all you need to do is the plumbing between the API and what you want to do with that return.

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Jaimie Carter

True. But where's the fun in that?

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Peter Witham

So very true, we all gotta have some fun with these things to keep it interesting.

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Jaimie Carter

Yeah, it's weird. I honestly enjoy going through the process of trying to figure out how to do this stuff.

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Jaimie Carter

Great advice. I'll implement all those points. The debugging one in particular - the is like black magic to me, so I guess I need to demystify it. The sooner the better. Thanks so much for the advice.

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Jaimie Carter

WOAH! I just started using the debugger in vscode! It's blown my mind. Why haven't I learnt to use this already?