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[–] [email protected] 97 points 3 months ago (2 children)

One time I struggled debugging a program on a clean Windows machine. For some reason it seemed like it couldn’t find a JSON file that’s obviously in the system. I could even open the file on my own and view its contents.

Turns out after much frustration that the file was actually a json.txt file. I didn’t notice because the extension was hidden, so I only saw .json and thought it was fine.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago

Step 5 in meme: add '.txt' to seemingly text files.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

sounds like vscode.

helix or micro on windows to get away from that garbage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

In this case I used notepad because it was a fresh Windows install on some VM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Notepad is the one that does things like that, because they want you to only use it for *.txt files. VSCode does not have issues like that.