I got tired of emacs not knowing I was essentially editing javascript files while writing JSON so I started to look into JS2-mode until I realised it was kind of overkill. Then I saw this comment that suggested telling emacs to use the inbuilt syntax handling for javascrpt for json files too!

(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.json\\'" . js-mode) auto-mode-alist))

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I'm super glad to see today that the first ever website I made is still online that first went up in 1999. Well, I say it's online but 'being cached' is admittedly the more accurate description. This snapshot from archive.org from 2001 has features that include a JavaScript powered "today's date" compoment that seems to be suffering from some kind of millenium bug (just kidding) and a form-to-email page that has field validation and, wait for it,  pop-up windows!

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