miniblog.

Bash's list of behaviours that aren't POSIX-compliant is longer than I expected: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-POSIX-Mode.html I used fish for a while and liked it, but POSIX-ish shells work with everything. These days I use a heavily customised zsh.

Tried fuzz-testing difftastic this morning (using cargo fuzz), and didn't find any crashes. I guess that's a good thing? I was slightly disappointed. Judging by the output, I think the tree-sitter parsers were exercised much more heavily than the tree diffing logic.

Automation does not seem to have much of an impact: people are rarely forced to change industry, companies are not investing heavily in AI, and productivity growth is slow: https://www.wired.com/2017/08/robots-will-not-take-your-job/