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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • We seem to have something in common: there is a serialisation form, we strongly dislike. But what I cannot understand is: why the heck would anyone torture anyone else to read or even write XML? XML is the absolutely worst configuration language I can imagine. I mean: when is something an attribute, when a tag on its own? What is even a list? And don’t forget to include a full HTTP URI for the namespace, otherwise the tag is not defined.

    By the way: all valid JSON is valid yaml as well. So in theory, you can use yaml as JSON with comments.




  • This. Is. Exactly. What. I. Wish. For. A. Very. Long. Time.

    Nowadays every news site has paywalls. I’m willing to pay for good work, but if I pay a single news provider, I’m missing too much. Nobody is willing to pay for every publisher. Even if an article is just a few cents I neither want to be annoyed with the payment process nor do I want to manually keep track of how much I spent for news in a month.

    We really need a platform providing a news flat rate, aggregating most larger publishers.