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Serendipidata 🌱
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Serendipidata 🌱 is a personal blog at serendipidata.com about programming and data. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Loading Dangerously: PyYAML and Safety by Design”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post is about YAML's problems as a configuration format, and the thread debates it against XML, INI, and JSON. The comments do not directly assess the post's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Loading Dangerously: PyYAML and Safety by Design2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-11
What Hacker News says?
> I've never met anyone who say's "I like YAML, it is great" Maybe I'm older than you, but I have definitely heard that line. Mostly because the alternatives were XML, INI or the myriad of bespoke formats, relayd/apachehttpd .conf or iptables etc;etc; INI has parsers that operate in different ways and doesn't support heirarchies... so that's not ideal. JSON and YAML came to the fore around the same time, and JSONs l…
Comment linking /posts/safe-api-design-and-pyyaml
on “The YAML Document from Hell”Submitted How to visualize visual project changes (2019) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Loading Dangerously: PyYAML and Safety by Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Loading Dangerously: PyYAML and Safety by Design (2019) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
