I just *love* programming languages that silently truncate big numbers instead of telling you that …

I just *love* programming languages that silently truncate big numbers instead of telling you that you need a bigger data type.

On Wandering.shop

How did I not think of “gonna need a bigger float”

…Convert every ID to a string when building JSON. At least it’s consistent.

Back-end API calls, though, you wouldn’t think would be affected.

But apparently JSON doesn’t actually specify a precision level 🤦‍♂️