I've always written dumb lisp parsers in the past: a list is just "(" EXPR* ")". Checking came later.
I'm trying something different in my current project, pushing special forms into the parsing logic.
This means that e.g. (if) is a parse error. It has a different vibe.
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There's something pleasingly self-referential about configuring an agent by talking to it.
> Remember that [fact about data formats].
Agent: Noted.
... realise nothing happened ...
> Write to your rules file that when I say "remember", I want you to write to the rules file.
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I've written difftastic packaging instructions: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/packaging_difftastic.html
The different distros have taken different approaches, so I'm trying to help with common gotchas — don't forget the man page!
Feedback welcome, especially if you've ever packaged something 🙂
I have a bunch of open tasks on my GH repos, so I tried asking ChatGPT and Claude to write a card-based web UI that showed some random open issues.
ChatGPT gave me something that worked, but the Claude mock-ups look better (and render inline!).
