A stray "j" ruined my evening

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Author: birdculture

Date: 6/23/2026

Article Summary:
The author shares a story about a link shortener script that was causing issues due to a stray "j" character, which was being added to the end of the links, and how they were able to fix the issue by using the `--join-output` argument in the `jq` command.