FAMF: Files As Metadata Format
FAMF: Files As Metadata Format
File structures with simple contents can be used instead of YAML, TOML or JSON. More effectively!
YAML and TOML suck. Long live the FAMF!
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This post misses the entire point of JSON/TOML/YAML and the big advantage it has over databases: readability.
Using a file based approach sounds horrible. Context gets lost very easily, as I need to browse and match outputs of a ton of files to get the full picture, where the traditional methods allow me to see that nearly instantly.
I also chuckled at the exact, horribly confusing example you give: upd_at. A metadata file for an object that already inherently has that metadata. It's metadata on top of metadata, which makes it all the more confusing what the actual truth for the object is.
I know! right?
Some say thay since you can use 'tree' and things like ranger to navigate the files, it should work alright. But I guess if you have one giant metadatafile for all the posts on your blog, it should be much easier to see the whole picture.
As for upd_at, it does not contain information about when the files have been edited, but when the content of the post was meaningfully edited.
So if for example I change the formatting of my times form ISO3339 to another standard, it changes the file metadata, but it does not update the post content, as far as the readers of the blog are concerned with. But I get why you chuckled.