ProgrammerHumor
evenMyWatchUsesJson
Saw a post on PCmasterrace with a bios watch face so today I took a whack at Monkey C and decided to make a JSON watch face. I know its been done but mine is free.
Discussion
Who needs data types anyway. Strings for everything!
Me trying to read time as a Unix timestamp on my watch
As if JSON offers a breadth of types.
True, we should make json more pure and drop the list and number options, dict and string are technically enough. Or what if we reduce it to just a string, we could do it if we had some kind of format to encode a dict to a string...
You already have to do that with BigInt
Just edit the raw binary of the file
“data” is the worst offender. It’s overloaded with multiple unidentified values that are pipe and space delimited. Why use these delimiters when json is already structured? C’mon!
Its a metaphor
A meta for what?
Nothing against this here, it looks nice! But still:
I think I should post a "The world <insert: sci-fi utopia> if JSON wouldn't be used for everything" meme.
JSON is by far one of the most horrible data formats ever invented! It's actually not good for anything. Especially not for what it's usually used: It's complete trash for data serialization (only binary formats are valid for this use case), it's maximally shitty for configs (not even comments are allowed!), and it sucks also for human interaction as it doesn't come with any rich, unambiguous, and standardized data types (instead you have to interpret arbitrary strings), and is on top supper noisy.
I use json a lot when I dont have a websocket server set up but I need 2 things to share data. One machine writes and the other reads
What's the link? :)
I haven't made it public yet but will update when I do:)
+1
Looks cool. I wish apple watch had it too
There is solace in knowing android doesn't have it either
Android has one.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.k3rnel.nowjson
But it doesn't have this one which i made myself
Ofcourse. Hope you will publish it as a new release.
And one app with several watch faces:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jeremysteckling.facerrel
“weather”: “N/A”
I could do that!
"What's stopping you from coding like this?"
Would have been a great title
This is so cool! Is it already on the garmin store? Will you add it? Or do I have to manually install it from github?
I'll probably put it on the Garmin store tomorrow :)
If you add the option to use Unix-timestamps instead of … this abomination … I’d definitely use that!
Your watch is hilariously big for your wrist lol
I love my giant watch
I love how they put placeholders for all the values from `system` but `activity` is all set to 0 and the user is essentially in cardiac arrest.
Who's they? I built it lol and the heart rate shows 63bpm?
in the first screenshot it's "-- bpm"
Oh that's just the emulator for testing
"hr": "-- bpm"
RIP OP
Reminds me of the terminal watch face: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.watchfacestudio.awfterminal
tbh, not a bad UI
You know what? thats it unjsoning your watch
<system>
<time>22:00:21</time> <date>MON, Jul/14</date> <batt>50%</batt> <weather>N/A</weather>
</system>
<activity>
<data>0 | 0 | 0</data> <hr>-- bpm</hr>
</activity>
r/ISO8601 gore
You dont use commas and abbreviated text names for your dates in json files? How odd
Definitely ISO, but preferably Unix timestamps plus offset data for your time zone.
We don’t want Joe from accounting looking at it and thinking he could understand any of this, right?
The problem with Unix timestamps is that they are as intuitively graspable as Star Trek star dates. There are for sure some people who can interpret them on the fly, but for average nerds it's just some opaque numbers.
I would argue that you should get your nerd-license revoked if you can't read Unix timestamps ;-)
(hey, this is r/ProgrammerHumor , don't take things too serious here!)
The point was, there are people who can tell you (roughly) the date when looking at a timestamp!
But I can't, and I guess most nerds, even the ones with license, can't either.
using "hr" on a watch for "heart rate" is diabolical
Wait why what you use instead lol
i'd use "heartrate" for simplicity and "bpm" for length, maybe there's better out there but i'm confident that "hr" can be confused with "hour" and is probably not the way to go.
it's mostly a personnal taste thing tbh, i mostly meant the comment above as a joke :)
Yeah after I reread your comment I got it. Every other watch face just uses an icon but I had to be different
"❤️" obviously lol