I want to brag about a bit of YAML code I wrote back in March for SecureDrop's completed migration to Ubuntu Noble that I neglected to mention in the blog post explaining the technical details. Yes, YAML, is a programming language. We offered SecureDrop Administrators the option for a "semiautomated"…
Python 3.10 is a fantastic trap for everyone who uses YAML/Toml to configure CI, because writing an unquoted 3.10 will happily be normalized to 3.1.
I'll be at the 2016 Architecture MediaWiki Wikimedia Developer Summit over the next week. I mainly want to talk to/nag people about: Configuration Extension management Librarization Composer (okay, not really that much) Wiki farms! "Global" and cross-wiki tools/tooling Why JSON is better than YAML (really) I've also proposed a session…
