2025-09-23
6 分钟What up nerds?
I'm Jared and this is Change Log News for the week of Monday, September 22nd, 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 into this week's news.
An escape route from YAMLHEL.
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."
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.
case on.