miniblog.

The most common selling point I hear for Nix is having a list of all the packages you need. On a traditional Linux distro, I just install things and forget about them. A curated, commented list would certainly be handy when I have a new system.

Delighted to see that Typescript 7 is moving to conventional LSP for its IDE services! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/progress-on-typescript-7-december-2025/#resetting-language-service-issues

Counter-intuitively, if you're writing a parser for a programming language, you need it to be a total function. As soon as you build IDE tooling, you need ASTs from invalid or incomplete input. The parser should return (Ast, List<Error>) rather than Result<Ast, Error>.