miniblog.

I travelled recently with six electronic devices, and every single one used USB-C for charging. It was wonderful, and not an experience I've had before.

Today I learnt that A* doesn't work for an arbitrary non-planar graph, you need additional structure: https://stackoverflow.com/q/26568552/509706 This matches my experience with difftastic so far. The graph is non-planar and my best heuristic only matches Dijkstra perf in typical cases.

Reflecting on the niceties and tricky parts of building systems with OCaml: https://borretti.me/article/two-years-ocaml (The author's experience match my own in a bunch of cases.)