An escape route from YAML hell (News)

What up, nerds? Sheboy. I'm Jared, and this is change log news for the week of Monday, 09/22/2025. I would have published this week's episode earlier, but I got distracted trying to prove to Neil from the awesome neil.fun website that I'm not a robot. I made it as far as level 14, but it took me far too long to find Waldo. You? Okay. Let's get in to this week's news. An escape route from YAML hell, Adolfo Otrigovia believes we're approaching the problem of configuration from a flawed starting point. Quote, we are failing to see that configuration files are actually user interfaces and that they should be treated as such. Once you start thinking of configuration files as user interfaces, it suddenly makes sense to demand an excellent user experience for working with them, end quote. What might configuration software look like if our tools were rooted in the configuration is UI paradigm? In this post, Adolfo doesn't go so far as to present an all encompassing theory of what configuration software could look like in a perfect world, but he does shout out one particular project that he thinks is a big step in the right direction, Kson. How a non dev reads beginner tutorials. Annie Mueller hits us with a wake up call about how she, as a non developer, reads the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for her, a beginner. Here's a sample. Quote, I first started doing very simple thing two with Snarfus, but the more I used it, the more I saw the potential. Despite the jaggle of the Chromus, it's really multipurpose. And that's what led me to argyling the Pintaphore with the Quagmire instead of the Hoobastank. I know. Crazy. But it was kind of working and actually a lot of fun until I hit a big roadblock. The Pfisterfunk will not talk to the Shamrock portal or even send beep boops back to the Snarfus. Of course, you know what that means now. The entire hoop tunnel is clogged with gremillions. Unacceptable, end quote. You already get the idea, but click through for even more snarfuses, beep boops, and ding dongs. Taste is humanity's last edge over AI. Brian Calhoun Lee spends some time meditating on taste along many dimensions. If it truly is humanity's last edge over AI, then we should define and understand it for all that it is. Brian says taste is art, parsimony, and the field behind the goalposts into which the goalposts are constantly being shifted. Taste is cultural distillation. It's governance, and it's able to be refined. But how? He has some ideas about that as well. It's now time for sponsored news. Code reviews with context. The code review process has a history of being challenging for teams. It's where the work meets integration and ultimately solves customer problems. The process can go back and forth nitpicking syntax, style, or patterns, but without business requirements, deployment dependencies, or organizational knowledge, it's only …