Alright, so I wanted to mess around with this “g jon” thing I’d heard whispers about. I’m not a super techy guy, but I like to tinker, and this sounded like a fun little project. I vaguely understood it had something to do with, like, organizing data or something.
First, I spent like an hour just trying to figure out what it even was. Turns out, I was kinda close. It’s about getting data and manipulating using jq in the command line.
So, I followed this dude’s tutorial, and it said the first thing I needed was jq. Okay, I’d used that before, so I figured it must be related. I hopped onto my terminal, typed something to check, yup, already had it. Sweet.
Next, I needed some of this “g jon” stuff. I hit up my package manager—I use Homebrew, ’cause I’m on a Mac—and did a quick ‘brew install go’. Took a few minutes, no biggie. I grabbed a coffee, came back, and it was done.
Then came the slightly confusing part. I had to, like, get the actual “g jon” thing. I find it in the github and I typed some stuff into the command line. It looks like downloading and installing.
Boom. Now I needed some data. I went on a random API and just copy pasted and created this file. I’m not even gonna pretend I understood it all, but it was, like, a bunch of data and data values.
With my text file ready, I went back to the terminal. I typed `g jon my data file`. Then, I ran it.
And… it worked! I mean, I didn’t really understand what I was doing, but the screen changed, and the data was there. So, I guess that’s a win? I’ll have to play around with it more to really grasp the power of this thing, but for a first try, I’m calling it a success.
