Self hosting is really nifty, but it's an additional cognitive burden.
For example, I can run difftastic on its own history. I use plain git-diff just as often.
My best improvements have come from using it in other codebases. It lets me think about one thing at a time
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I'm trying mini projects to exercise my new programming language and find gaps.
So far I've done fizzbuzz, JSON parsing, and a crude scheme interpreter.
Any ideas for additional projects? They need to be well scoped because I keep finding e.g. stdlib crashes.
Caddy is really growing on me. It's nice having a web proxy that includes letsencrypt functionality without any additional configuration.
I've tended to use nginx with a separate letsencrypt setup for projects before, and it's much more awkward.
Today I learnt that A* doesn't work for an arbitrary non-planar graph, you need additional structure:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/26568552/509706
This matches my experience with difftastic so far. The graph is non-planar and my best heuristic only matches Dijkstra perf in typical cases.