{"id":538,"date":"2010-09-13T01:45:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T07:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2010-09-13T01:45:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T07:45:53","slug":"reading-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/538","title":{"rendered":"Reading open source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t done a lot of it, but I&#8217;ve done a little, and per my recent thoughts about the value of recording accumulated learning in the form of code, I&#8217;m wondering whether the wide availability of open source for so many types of software will make it a lot more prevalent and show a whole facet of the value of open source that hasn&#8217;t been addressed too often.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean by &#8216;it&#8217; is reading source code in order to learn about the field in which the code is used. With good code and skill at navigating and reading it, I bet a lot of answers to questions about a field can be found, along with related structures and details and exceptions that aren&#8217;t always captured effectively in books or expert answers. Hmm, I say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t done a lot of it, but I&#8217;ve done a little, and per my recent thoughts about the value of recording accumulated learning in the form of code, I&#8217;m wondering whether the wide availability of open source for so many types of software will make it a lot more prevalent and show a whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}