ghuntley / noyaml

A silly emotional rant about the state of devops tooling/the infrastructure sector in 2018. #noyaml.com

ghuntley's personal monorepo

This repository is the monorepo for my personal software.

Everything in here is built using Nix with an automatic attribute-set layout that mirrors the filesystem layout of the repository (this might feel familiar to users of Bazel).

If you've ended up here and have no idea who I am, feel free to follow me on Twitter.

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noyaml's Issues

Stop using monaco editor

Why are you willing to go through such a pain of embedding an editor just for a horrible user experience (especially on mobile)? I hate your site more than I hate editing GitHub Workflow files. This fact alone make your rant loses its merit. Stop it! Just use a site generator!

The joy of making your entire build pipeline turn green just by adding a SINGLE SPACE.

Should mention number of ways to do multi-line strings

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3790454/how-do-i-break-a-string-in-yaml-over-multiple-lines/21699210#21699210

Suggest some alternatives

After all that, I still don't know how to replace YAML. Using structs et al. is not always possible. For example, when building a CLI, it may make sense to handle configuration by having a single YAML file open in vim instead of having a complex system of nested configuration subcommands.

Would it make sense to add a section with some alternatives to YAML (and how they are better)?

URL broken

The url to the YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t19I-R83lKo

In the alternative options and approaches to devops does not work

noyaml.com returns 404

Hi, not sure if this is expected, but it seems like noyaml.com is no longer working:

$ curl https://noyaml.com
Not Found

Page uses tabs for indentation, which YAML doesn’t allow

License on code

Hi

This isn't an issue as such, but I really love the waving octocat in the corner, but your code doesn't have a license so I don't want to include it in my code if you don't want me to. Am I ok to do this?

Thanks

StrictYAML

I'm the author of this library which was inspired by most of the same issues which inspired this website - for example the Norway problem. The overriding goal was to make it type-safe, which it is.

It doesn't solve 100% of the issues raised, and I still think that there are certain things it shouldn't ever be used for - e.g. deployment pipelines or anything else resembling a programming language, but it's 90% of the way there (still missing a nice, simple spec - one day I will get around to that).

I saw somebody mention it in one of the other issues and I was wondering if you'd be open to some sort of reference to it in the page or if it would spoil the one overriding message of avoiding YAML at all possible costs :)

Trigger some easter egg when I correct NO

When I correct NO from:

NI: Nicaragua
NL: Netherlands
NO: Norway # 💣!

to

NI: Nicaragua
NL: Netherlands
"NO": Norway # 💣!

(after reading that paragraph)

…please trigger some fun thing. Like ghost/magic writing "Yes, exactly like that."
…or a popup "smart ass"…
…or "You really needed to try that now, did not you?"

Add Open Graph image

Hi 👋

Big fan of your website! If I may, I'd like to suggest adding an Open Graph image. While the domain name is already pretty clear, such a preview image provides even more opportunity to quickly get the point across and/or tease people into visiting the site.

Example:

(source)

For reference, here's how I implemented it in one of my websites: https://gitlab.com/dAnjou/zen-of-coding/-/tree/master/public/1. Google Chat shows it like this:

add a dark mode