miniblog.

I eventually learned that there's a 'correct way up' for USB A cables. The two small holes should be on top. Tragically not all power adapters get this right, even for name brands. My ability to get the cable right first time still isn't much better than 50%!

I had a third attempt at porting difftastic from Dijkstra to A*, and I've eventually concluded that A* just isn't worth it for the implementation complexity. I had fun writing it up though, and I've even attempted ASCII art for building intuitions:

I periodically see "diffstatic" as a typo of difftastic. I quite like it: makes me think of 'ecstatic' rather than 'fantastic'. I've eventually configured typos CLI to prevent this spelling on the difftastic repo, but it makes me smile every time.