I tell people I’m a software engineer but in reality I’m a config file engineer
Senior YAML programmer
Careers Fair; 2024
Teen: “Excuse me; how do I become a Tech Lead like you someday” Lead: “By simple luck of the draw I am the best at googling other people’s solutions to my team’s YAML config issues.”
Lol. Legitimately.
Did you know YAML is a recursive acronym? It stands for ‘YAML AML MAML LAML’
Nature is beautiful❤️
Ansible go brrrr
… slowly.
YAML would such a nice language for config files but then it turns out that “no” is falsy and so a list of Scandinavian countries turns from
- se
- fi
- no
into
- “se”
- “fi”
- False
I wish there was like a JSON5 equivalent for YAML that just reduces its scope lol
(and no, TOML also looks ugly :P)Norway is false and Finland isn’t in Scandinavia
S W E D E N
S W E D E N
S W E D E N
This is definitely a failing of yaml. Though, I feel that generally it’s the sort of thing you learn once the hard way, then it sticks with you pretty well.
Also I’m glad there are more anti-toml folks are out there, feels like I’m taking crazy pills when people say it is “simple” and “elegant”. IMO it’s uglier than old-school ini format - at least it’s more strictly defined but that doesn’t really sway me to convert
TOML isn’t elegant at all but damn, it is really simple.
If by simple you mean “can’t count from 1 to 10 in a loop” and by elegant you mean “easier to understand than a one line perl script” then sure…
You’re looking for StrictYaml
Looks interesting, I’ll check it out, thanks :D
Me carrying a comically oversized box of compose files.
My fatass read a box of donuts
I didn’t know that ansible-galaxy had a comic
In typical ansible fashion, expect it in 20 years.
Those devops should switch to nix already 😁
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