Gregory's ServerI like how, when you request your data archive from Twitter, they package it into JSON, almost. Almost! Just with a single assignment in front, so it can’t be interpreted as data, but only as a code. Why? Didn’t they hear Rich Hickey preaching for data-first development?
 8 comments
@Olical yeah, it’s probably some stupid shit like that. It also has html page next to it, I guess local html can’t “just” import json, which is of course mega-stupid  @nikitonsky ohhh yeah if you open it under the file:// protocol I think some fuckyness ensues, almost definitely that. Still so weird though. I guess it could be worse, it could be embedded in the HTML or a PDF instead. @nikitonsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP It doesn't mean that there is a real reason to do so in that case @mikesub oh, I remember reading about it like 15 years ago, when JS was small and React didn't even exist  @nikitonsky I once imported photos from Google photos and while all photos had meta-data it was in a separate json files 🤷 |
@nikitonsky I vaguely recall this being a hack so you could import a JS file cross domain as a script, allowing you to load JS data from another server in the bad old days. I guess not what's being done here, this is just weeeeird.