I'm feeling reasonably happy with the light and dark styles of difftastic now: there's a reasonable amount of contrast on both sides.
I'm now using ANSI bright colours for the dark theme and it works pretty well. I had to give up on cyan as it's too pale on light backgrounds.
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Inevitably I find some small thing to change in my code just after I've done a release.
I'm feeling motivated, I'm paying attention to detail, and stuff just jumps out. I suspect it's because I end up looking at different parts during a release.
It's a bittersweet feeling when you trace a crash back to a "TODO: make this robust against X" comment you wrote.
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.


