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YAML's indentation-as-syntax and implicit type inference make it readable to write and dangerous to get subtly wrong — here's why 'NO' becomes false, why tabs are banned, and why 1.10 silently becomes 1.1.
JSON Schema looks like static typing for JSON, but its composition keywords follow evaluation rules that trip up most people writing their first real-world schema — here's the mental model that actually holds up.
Base64, Base32, and Base58 all turn bytes into printable text, but they solve different problems. Two chop the bitstream; one converts the whole thing as a big number — and that single distinction decides which belongs in front of a human.
A JSON array requires seeing the closing bracket before any of it is valid — which is exactly what breaks when you stream millions of records. Newline-delimited JSON fixes that by making every line a complete, independent document.