I was tired of having to rely on a browser for fetching torrents from torrents-csv.com so I sat down for a few hours and put together an Emacs front-end for it. It is very minimal and all it does is get the magnet for a selected torrent, but it's one step away from the browser :)

I eventually want to have a general torrent search engine inside Emacs but for that I need a better way than relying on fishy crawlers, I'd probably self-host bitmagnet.io. But that'll be in the future.

https://codeberg.org/divyaranjan/torrents-csv.el/

It took only a few hours of dealing with JSON to remind myself of something a lot of people don't think about:

How absolutely terrible JSON is as a language to store and parse data and how absolutely beautiful S-Expressions are at doing the same.

To those who somehow feel bad about working with parentheses, though personally I can't fathom such inflexibility in my own disposition, a fellow Lisper created a way to keep much of the goodness of S-Expressions but take the parentheses out.

I would never wish to edit Lisp like this, but if someone "really" wants to learn Lisp and "really" it's the parentheses that's stopping them, then the answer is here:

https://readable.sourceforge.io/

Apparently, *sigh*