{"id":8134,"date":"2021-01-30T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/01\/30\/why-blobs-are-important-and-why-you-should-care\/"},"modified":"2021-01-30T08:28:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T07:28:09","slug":"why-blobs-are-important-and-why-you-should-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/01\/30\/why-blobs-are-important-and-why-you-should-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Blobs Are Important, And Why You Should Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hackaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/blobs-featured.jpg?w=910&#038;ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are extraordinarily fortunate to live at a time in which hardware with astounding capabilities can be had for only a few dollars. Systems that would once have taken an expensive pile of chips and discretes along with months of development time to assemble are now integrated onto commodity silicon. Whether it is a Linux-capable [\u2026]<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/01\/29\/why-blobs-are-important-and-why-you-should-care\/\">Why Blobs Are Important, And Why You Should Care<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">We are extraordinarily fortunate to live at a time in which hardware with astounding capabilities can be had for only a few dollars. Systems that would once have taken an expensive pile of chips and discretes along with months of development time to assemble are now integrated onto commodity silicon. Whether it is a Linux-capable&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/01\/30\/why-blobs-are-important-and-why-you-should-care\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senza-categoria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-27c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10940,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2023\/11\/03\/versioning-data-in-postgres-testing-a-git-like-approach-specfy\/","url_meta":{"origin":8134,"position":0},"title":"Versioning data in Postgres? 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