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		cadbox1 on Sept 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: A Senior Engineer's CheckList Did you use a tool to create the JSON or did you type it by hand?

littleblah on Sept 9, 2019 [–]

`jq` is great. Initially, I started with excel, which I exported as csv, which using `jq` I converted to JSON.

Why json and not csv? Strictier parsing by javascript.

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