I would really hesitate to use a 1000 lines of yaml and modify them. I never found YAML easy to modify after a certain size.
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#22Why do ppl think building something through yaml is ever a good idea?? (I know why: for a platform it’s simpler to parse a yaml than to run code, but it’s almost never a good idea for anything that needs to scale in complexity)
What is a better format that allows inline comments, is human readable, and can be easily converted to other formats (json, xml, et al)
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#23I would really hesitate to use a 1000 lines of yaml and modify them. I never found YAML easy to modify after a certain size.
You have trouble with them when you are modifying them by hand or using an LLM to do it? The purpose of this project is having LLMs do it. I found they are about as good at writing yaml as they are writing anything else.
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#24Why do ppl think building something through yaml is ever a good idea?? (I know why: for a platform it’s simpler to parse a yaml than to run code, but it’s almost never a good idea for anything that needs to scale in complexity)
What is a better format that allows inline comments, is human readable, and can be easily converted to other formats (json, xml, et al)
The comments are why I prefer YAML for config over JSON. Of course, JSON is great for many purposes, especially machine to machine. For human to machine, I prefer YAML.
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#25Have you thought about how these dashboards could be built for an eink screen?
For a while, I was thinking about starting a side project of selling E-ink screens with easily configured dashboards. The project would support hobbies who want to build dashboards powered by a raspberry pi or something. I never pursued it, but it seems like you are now halfway there.
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#26DaC might be more distinguishable from DAC, although the context obviously also helps readers telling them apart. Yours sincerely, came here for another DAC
Point taken, thanks! Out of curiosity, which DAC did you come here for?
yup yup I also came here for electronics/digital audio without finishing reading the title. DAC is super standard to read in those spaces.
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#27Why not use Vega-Lite[0]? It’s my go-to data viz DSL with Claude. [0] https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
Observable Framework[0] attempted to fill this niche for a while as well, and we'll likely see some of the implementation details in the new Observable Notebook 2.0 format too.
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#28The "agents as primary user" framing is what makes this stand out from other dashboard-as-code tools. Having agents generate dashboards is one thing, but making those dashboards reviewable and standardized is the actual hard part. Curious about the semantic layer — when an agent modifies a metric definition in semantic/, how does validation work? Does DAC flag downstream widgets that would break, or is it more of a "trust but verify" model where you catch issues at render time?
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#29Yet another "Show HN" that has existed for less than a week. I wish the rules against AI generated content were applied to all these too.
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