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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:

LLMs have been really helpful for me porting some JS projects to TS. Since the types are erased and annotations are optional, I can go gradually and safely with more minimal human oversight. (I'm not sure if it'll significantly help robustness, but it's lovely for navigation.)

Porting my 2016 Rust project from getopts to clap, and it's amazing how far the ecosystem has come. clap gives me a nicer help, automatic value validation, and can even generate completions for shells! First screenshot is getopts, second is clap.