miniblog.

When writing long-lived programs (daemons etc) in Rust, I find myself asking *where* I should put data. In a GC'd language it's just "I have a string" but Rust forces me to find somewhere to put it. You do get a performance benefit for this work though.

I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics. It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.

I like that most LLM UIs show your previous queries prominently. When figuring out where LLMs are useful in your workflow, it's nice to see what worked well (or not) in the past. Web search doesn't have this property. I rarely look at what I've previously googled.