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KSON: A 💌 to the humans maintaining computer configurations
KSON combines the strengths of YAML and JSON. With KSON you can write files that are easy to read, edit, and debug—without worrying about invisible whitespace errors or missing commas.
🛠️ https://kson.org

from my link log —
JSON is not a subset of YAML.
https://john-millikin.com/json-is-not-a-yaml-subset
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#HomeAssistant is pretty good.
It has some quirks, but it's not as much hassle as I feared. I had to edit 4 lines of YAML, but everything else I wanted was in the GUI.
Finally, switch to the #Matter standard paid off. I can keep devices shared with HomeKit, while having way bet…

Oh YAML *wtf*
I thought until now YAML is more or less fixed and clearly defined but apparently not. Do you know all the possible effects unknown to me?
🤬 #yaml

ohyaml.wtf | YAML Quiz
YAML is known to be nobody's friend and almost everyone's enemy. Try this to see if it's your friend or foe!

Current status: writing an Ansible task that creates a jinja2 template that creates a bash script that uses bash arrays that come from a YAML dict of lists

@… Or had to make a YAML file work in a weird build system (looking at you, GitHub).

Musing again about some kind of lightweight vector graphics format as an intermediate between (a subset of) SVG and ImDrawList. Probably YAML based since we already have yaml-cpp as a dependency.

GitHub Actions for the R language: Makes automatic testing of your R package much easier and making sure your package works on different OS and R versions is a matter of just a few lines of yaml: #rstats

OMG. I love #Multipass for Infrastructure as Code. I tried creating my own Multipass YAML and it actually worked!
========
package_update: true
package_upgrade: true
runcmd:
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fish-shell/release-4
- sudo apt update -y
- sudo apt install fish -y
- usermod -s /usr/bin/fish ubuntu
=========
$ multipass launch 24.04 \

OpenLambdaVerse: A Dataset and Analysis of Open-Source Serverless Applications
Angel C. Chavez-Moreno, Cristina L. Abad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01492 https://

OpenLambdaVerse: A Dataset and Analysis of Open-Source Serverless Applications
Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) is at the core of serverless computing, enabling developers to easily deploy applications without managing computing resources. With an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach, frameworks like the Serverless Framework use YAML configurations to define and deploy APIs, tasks, workflows, and event-driven applications on cloud providers, promoting zero-friction development. As with any rapidly evolving ecosystem, there is a need for updated insights into how these tools …

KSON Structured Object Notation
https://kson.org/

Just updated Tvmarks to have a proper render.yaml file so you can go to render.com and launch a new Tvmarks instance. You really only need to set an admin password!
Currently an instance will cost $7.25 a month on render.com.
https://dashboard.render.com/select-repo?type=bluepr…

From Behavioral Performance to Internal Competence: Interpreting Vision-Language Models with VLM-Lens
Hala Sheta, Eric Huang, Shuyu Wu, Ilia Alenabi, Jiajun Hong, Ryker Lin, Ruoxi Ning, Daniel Wei, Jialin Yang, Jiawei Zhou, Ziqiao Ma, Freda Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02292

From Behavioral Performance to Internal Competence: Interpreting Vision-Language Models with VLM-Lens
We introduce VLM-Lens, a toolkit designed to enable systematic benchmarking, analysis, and interpretation of vision-language models (VLMs) by supporting the extraction of intermediate outputs from any layer during the forward pass of open-source VLMs. VLM-Lens provides a unified, YAML-configurable interface that abstracts away model-specific complexities and supports user-friendly operation across diverse VLMs. It currently supports 16 state-of-the-art base VLMs and their over 30 variants, and …

KubeIntellect: A Modular LLM-Orchestrated Agent Framework for End-to-End Kubernetes Management
Mohsen Seyedkazemi Ardebili, Andrea Bartolini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02449 htt…

KubeIntellect: A Modular LLM-Orchestrated Agent Framework for End-to-End Kubernetes Management
Kubernetes has become the foundation of modern cloud-native infrastructure, yet its management remains complex and fragmented. Administrators must navigate a vast API surface, manage heterogeneous workloads, and coordinate tasks across disconnected tools - often requiring precise commands, YAML configuration, and contextual expertise. This paper presents KubeIntellect, a Large Language Model (LLM)-powered system for intelligent, end-to-end Kubernetes control. Unlike existing tools that focus …

Just published v0.14.0 of helmfile-nix, a wrapper around helmfile in go to allow you to use the #nix language to manage helm releases on kubernetes rather than yaml go templating. This release adds functionality to also write ad-hoc helm charts directly in nix. https://github.com/reMarkable/helmfile-nix/releases/tag/v0.14.0 we provide binaries as well as a docker image with static nix based on alpine. You can also use it as a flake.

I have to use #Gitlab CI at $work, and I'm surprised how clunky it is.
CI Components are not real components, they just dump YAML into a global namespace, needing hacks to customize them.
There's no reusability at the granularity of Github Actions (other than concatenation of bash scripts).
I keep running into dead ends. I check Gitlab's own bug tracker to see if an…

I get bi-directional LLM guilt. I feel guilty if I don't use them to save time, and then I also feel guilty when my git history shows my carelessness that I haven't fully tested or understood what I just added.
Ex: I LLMd a prettier configuration to fix some markdown formatting stuff in Lazyvim, but then it was single quoting my ansible yaml because I accidentally added a default setting to do so .

Can LLMs Write CI? A Study on Automatic Generation of GitHub Actions Configurations
Taher A. Ghaleb, Dulina Rathnayake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17165 htt…

Can LLMs Write CI? A Study on Automatic Generation of GitHub Actions Configurations
Continuous Integration (CI) services, such as GitHub Actions, require developers to write YAML-based configurations, which can be tedious and error-prone. Despite the increasing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate software engineering tasks, their ability to generate CI configurations remains underexplored. This paper presents a preliminary study evaluating six LLMs for generating GitHub Actions configurations from natural language descriptions. We assess three general-purpose found…

Controls Abstraction Towards Accelerator Physics: A Middle Layer Python Package for Particle Accelerator Control
M. King, A. D. Brynes, F. Jackson, K. Baker, D. J. Scott, E. Yang, T. Kabana, C. Garnier, S. Chowdhury, N. Neveu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19794

Controls Abstraction Towards Accelerator Physics: A Middle Layer Python Package for Particle Accelerator Control
Control system middle layers act as a co-ordination and communication bridge between end users, including operators, system experts, scientists, and experimental users, and the low-level control system interface. This article describes a Python package -- Controls Abstraction Towards Acclerator Physics (CATAP) -- which aims to build on previous experience and provide a modern Python-based middle layer with explicit abstraction, YAML-based configuration, and procedural code generation. CATAP pro…