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  1. fav part of coding: once the problem and solution are better understood, you can start simplifying (before/after)
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
    1. …in reply to @ra
      specifically here, my original implementation maintained a bidirectional mapping between objects and IDs because i was generating my own IDs
      1. …in reply to @ra
        new implementation is based on Unity’s instance IDs which you can get from any object, but can’t look up objects from them
        1. …in reply to @ra
          so a unidirectional mapping (clojure map) is simpler and solves the problem