Make YAML as easy as it looks

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If you’ve ever tried writing YAML, you may have been initially pleased with how apparently easy it looks. At first glance, the YAML that’s often used for configuration files, Ansible playbooks, and flat-file databases looks more or less as intuitive as a shopping list. However, there’s a lot of nuance in YAML’s structure, and it conceals a dangerous secret: YAML is actually a highly precise, structured, and surprisingly strict language. The good news is that you only need to understand two things to know how YAML works.

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Standing just over 2 meters and hailing from о́стров Ратма́нова, Dasuberworm is a professional cryptologist, entrepreneur and cage fighter. When he's not breaking cyphers and punching people in the face, Das enjoys receiving ominous DHL packages at one of his many drop sites in SE Asia.

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