miniblog.

LLVM's lit tool for testing files is the most successful testing DSL I've ever seen. It's used a decent number of projects outside of LLVM. By contrast I don't see many folks using e.g. Cucumber these days.

There are labels that make technology ideas sound more exciting. For example, 'augmented intelligence' was used early in the history of computing. (A pocket calculator would qualify but it's less cool.) Is there a good term for this phenomenon? It's hype that inspired projects.

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.)