👉 Okay, let’s tackle this…
CSV_files
. Now, I feel like I need to preface that by saying simply defining something as a "CSV file is a formatted text document...blah blah blah..." just utterly fails to capture the existential dread and slightly obsessive chill they actually wield within the technical underworld.
Basically, a CSV (Comma Separated… ugh , let's just say, Array of Silly Velocities ) _file, is essentially a digital ledger of mediocrity. Think of it as a spreadsheet that’s decided to bravely leave the safety and comfort of your actual spreadsheet program to embark on an awkwardly independent, slightly paranoid life of its own. It’s just rows upon rows upon rows – literally rows! – each crammed with plain-postcard type chunks of information, dutifully divided by commas that are apparently governed by some bizarre postal courier service. The really unnerving thing? They're everywhere . Governments hoard them. Dropboxes overflow with them. Somewhere in the dark corners of the internet, there is probably a CSV documenting exactly what kind of cheese Mrs. Henderson purchased last Tuesday and if she paid with a slightly crumpled five-dollar note. (I shuddered just thinking about that.) CSV files aren't pretty. They are not designed for your pretty little eyeballs. They exist to be… tabulated. To be… manipulated, often by people who have spent the last 300
