miniblog.

I love how JS makes project-specific imports unambiguous: `import "./project-dir/foo"` versus `import "installed-pkg/foo". I've been doing the same in my PL. I've just realised that `import "/home/wilfred/project/foo"` now works too. It's weird but probably harmless?

I've been working on a search tool for a website with 9K items and a dumb implementation works just fine. I'd normally gravitate to a library or tool like elasticsearch (ES). Adding custom filters etc is trivial on handrolled code. I wonder what scale requires actual search infra like ES.

LLMs are great at style transfer, and this works surprisingly well for syntactic transformations too. I rewrote a small website's EJS templates to 1500 LOC of TSX with a oneshot in Claude. It took ~12 minutes, but it just worked. (TSX seems nicer than EJS for static analysis.)