Post #480835

2026-02-27 23:39 UTC

It is astonishing how many companies have decided almost all of their data work should be done by writing shit-tons of YAML, sometimes with bits of code jammed into random strings And by astonishing I mean I&#39;m going to be on the news the next time I see it

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@Viss@mastodon.social 2026-02-27 23:40

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club man i fuckin hate yaml so much

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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-02-27 23:43

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club "Any sufficiently complicated YAML file contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." — Greenspun's Tenth Rule (gently upcycled)

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@Cacotopos@aus.social 2026-02-27 23:45

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club never forget YAML: Yelling At My Laptop

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@pinecone460@social.seattle.wa.us 2026-02-27 23:49

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club "i will _______ you if you send YAML" post upcoming?

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@mawhrin@circumstances.run 2026-02-27 23:57

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club in the retrospect, jinja2 was a mistake.

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@oddhack@mstdn.social 2026-02-28 00:07

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club someone in our standards group just proposed a PR to the CI YML that puts an entire static Javascript app inline to the script instead of just loading it from a different file. ?! Github Actions-flavored YAML is a best a necessary evil, not a feature.

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@jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au 2026-02-28 00:08

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club a real t-shirt that really existed:

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@jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au 2026-02-28 00:09

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club I also had a post at the nazi bar to the effect of “if engineers had their way, point of sales systems would work by opening PRs on YAML files”

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@solonovamax@tech.lgbt 2026-02-28 00:11

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club even worse: mojang, which does all this using json and then they realized that it's so awful to write this shit that they have a datagen system to generate the json from code!

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@heygarrett@social.lol 2026-02-28 05:06

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club https://noyaml.com/

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@Sevoris@mastodon.social 2026-02-28 06:23

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club tbh whenever I see a data anything that‘s like "just write a YAML file for this" I go like "okay but like, can I not? Especially if you also expect me to write any kind of other language without a linter in it?"

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