miniblog.

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.)

I've been really enjoying paru as a pacman substitute on Arch Linux: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru It allows you to update both normal and AUR packages in one go, which is super convenient. It also shows you PKGBUILD files, so there's still a human audit step for AUR.

Writing a parser that is resilient to syntax errors, and why a parser should always return something: https://duriansoftware.com/joe/constructing-human-grade-parsers (The latter property is important in e.g. IDEs and it's rarely discussed!)