@richmeisteratl.bsky.social writes the best histories of esoteric technology! Read this then check out his history of table posit-dev.github.io/great-tables...
Emily Riederer
YAML deserves a defense!
opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...
The complaints are real but historical as they describe YAML 1.1, not the 1.2 spec that fixed them in 2009. The post traces the full history and introduces py-yaml12, a fast Rust-backed Python library for the modern spec. Hope you enjoy!
A common refrain among developers: YAML is bad and TOML is good. This post argues otherwise, tracing the history of configuration formats, examining what YAML 1.2 actually fixed, and introducing py-ya...
