miniblog.

I've heard of 'blub languages', where you don't realise that other languages have better abstractions until you've experienced them. I think the same thing happens with individual features. I've seen several C++ folks miss variadic generics in Rust, but I've not written enough C++ to feel it.

Have you ever wondered what happens if you hook up a lexer to a diff algorithm? I was feeling smart until I built it and saw the result. The longest common subsequence here is ( ) ( ) ; which is not terribly helpful. I'm going to have to look at proper tree diffing techniques.

It can be really hard to find good free resources: for-pay providers are much more motivated to promote themselves. I found it really hard to find quality stock images, and eventually found unsplash. This week I found pixabay too. I'm sure this also happens in other domains.