Comment on Google humans.txtComments−jarin15yI think humans.txt is great, but it would be even better if the "standard" was to use a human/machine-readable format like YAML. The example on the website is really close to that.Yes, I know it's an ironic request.−paulirish15yEven at google we were debating how to structure a humans.txt.. and to make it machine readable, etc.Personally I say fuck it.. While machine-parseable would be nice, that's not the point of this file.More creativity without some sort of YAML constraint. In the HTML5 Boilerplate ours has effing stars, bro: https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/h...−rch15yHow about some literate programming? You could even start the file with a sentence like:"Paul Irish last updated this text on May 6, 2011 using the Standard Grammar."
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I think humans.txt is great, but it would be even better if the "standard" was to use a human/machine-readable format like YAML. The example on the website is really close to that.
Yes, I know it's an ironic request.
Even at google we were debating how to structure a humans.txt.. and to make it machine readable, etc.
Personally I say fuck it.. While machine-parseable would be nice, that's not the point of this file.
More creativity without some sort of YAML constraint. In the HTML5 Boilerplate ours has effing stars, bro: https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/h...
How about some literate programming? You could even start the file with a sentence like:
"Paul Irish last updated this text on May 6, 2011 using the Standard Grammar."