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Feb 21, 2024 at 07:25
Fun example of a bunch of YAML gotchas all in a single file:
The yaml document from hell
As a data format, yaml is extremely complicated and it has many footguns. In this post I explain some of those pitfalls by means of an example, and I suggest a few simpler and safer yaml alternatives.

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