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Just the Fields: A Simpler Way to Explore Large (and Messy) JSON Data

March 9, 2026March 9, 2026 The BIMsider

I have been doing a lot of work with JSON lately, which got me thinking. There has to be a better way to view all this data.

Technically, JSON is human-readable. But once you are dealing with hundreds or thousands of data points from an API response, it quickly stops feeling very human-friendly. Large responses turn into walls of nested objects and arrays, and even with formatting or collapsible trees it can still be difficult to quickly find the pieces of information you actually care about.

JSON is technically human-readable.
Until it is 5,000 lines long.

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AECO, AI, BCF, BIM, buildingSMART, CSS, For The Love Of Code, HTML, JS, openBIM, Vibe Coding

Introducing BCFSleuth

August 4, 2025 The BIMsider

Built over a long weekend using Vibe Coding and a solid assist from AI, BCFSleuth is a lightweight, browser-based app that lets you explore and export BCF files (2.0, 2.1, 3.0) with zero setup.

🔍 Quickly preview BCF data
📁 Export to clean, structured CSV or Excel
📸 View and export images
🛡️ No servers — runs entirely client-side
📱 Mobile-friendly for on-the-go use

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Building🏌️‍♂️Par-Tracker 42 🤖: Why “For the Love of Code” Perfectly Captures the Spirit of Joyful Development

July 19, 2025July 19, 2025 The BIMsider

AI image created with NightCafe: For the Love of Code. And if it’s an AI-assisted hackathon for GitHub, even better!

When GitHub announced their For the Love of Code summer hackathon, I knew exactly what they meant. Sometimes the best projects aren’t born from business requirements or feature requests, they come from that spark of “wouldn’t it be cool if…” that every developer knows.

The Ultimate Answer to Golf Score Tracking Needs

Today, I had one of those perfect coding sessions that reminded me why I fell in love with development in the first place. Working alongside Claude Sonnet 4 AI, I built and fine-tuned 🏌️‍♂️Par-Tracker 42 🤖, a web-based golf handicap calculator that embodies everything the “For the Love of Code” hackathon celebrates.

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