I've realised that my favourite side projects all have fiddly bits.
It's really nice to have small features that you can add or debug in a few minutes.
miniblog.
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LLMs are great at style transfer, and this works surprisingly well for syntactic transformations too.
I rewrote a small website's EJS templates to 1500 LOC of TSX with a oneshot in Claude. It took ~12 minutes, but it just worked.
(TSX seems nicer than EJS for static analysis.)
Emacser (noun): a person who spends 45 minutes and 20 lines of code to save one keypress.
Writing tests in the traditional red-green approach is invaluable. But make sure they're red for the right reason!</just-lost-10-minutes>