‘communist’ has been a hot word since the 50s

Make it 1939, if you live in Eastern Europe.

You are now breathing manually. Take that, OP!

Fight me.

Can we do a Blueyathon instead, so we can see all the foreshadowing they’ve secretly been doing all along? Take the Winton foreshadowing of his dad bumping into the mom of one of the other kids at a store…

It’s such a good show.

And lack of trailing comma’s

Someone’s working on a standard! https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rivest-sexp/

and no possibility of (a lack of) trailing comma’s. Unless you use JSON inside Yaml, you heathens!

Depends on the data structure. If you want to save a table of sorts, you’re getting a bunch of unreadable [[[]]] nonsense.

For flat structures it’s great though.

That lack of trailing comma has been the bane of my existence.

People are working on making S-Expressions a standard: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rivest-sexp/

Note: This is just a draft, but improvements have been happening since 2023.

I probably won’t like the parentheses, but I think I’ll take it over yaml/json/whateverelse.

YAML is fine if you use a subset (don’t use the advanced features - not like you know those anyway) and use explicit strings (always add " to strings), otherwise things may be cast when you did not intend values to be cast.

Example:

country: NO (Norway) will be cast to country: False, because it’ll cast no (regardless from casing) to false, and yes to true.

country: "NO" should not be cast.

Alas it’s not my site (and I think it’s meant to be read on a desktop screen), so I can’t fix it.

For the newbies: RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601. Bookmark this site.

YAML is complex and has security concerns most people are not aware of.

YAML is racist to Norwegians.

If you have something like country: NO (NO = Norway), YAML will turn that into country: False. Why? Implicit casting. There are a bunch of truthy strings that’ll be cast automagically.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/googan

Is this the same?

The World of Warcraft term, or the gay community term? Important distinction.

I play Dome Keeper and World of Warcraft: WotLK instead, but I also program on it, so I guess I don’t count. Newer high-profile games don’t have that je ne sais quoi that games from around 2004 had. Perhaps I’ve just played too many games, which makes them predictable, and those old games are just pure nostalgia for me.

Wild that Reddit’s creation is closer to the start of the Eternal September than it is to today (19 years).

Good. Super-fast growth fucks with local internet culture. Look at what happened to reddit when digg died.

I blame Digg for failing. It increased Reddit’s popularity too fast, which was a bad thing bringing too many people, fucking up the culture reddit had built (which wasn’t much, but it was ours).

It’s a containment site; has been for a while.