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Jake Goldsborough

Jake Goldsborough

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How We Fixed YAML Comment Preservation in Ruby (And Why We Sponsored It)

Discourse solved a five-year infrastructure headache by sponsoring psych-pure, a Ruby YAML library that preserves comments through programmatic edits - keeping years of hard-won institutional knowledge intact.

  • Jake Goldsborough
Jake Goldsborough Feb 20, 2026 • 3 min read
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