miniblog.

There are *so many* ways that reading a text file can fail. Maybe it doesn't exist, it's a broken symlink, it's actually a directory, it's not the encoding you expected, or perhaps you just don't have the correct permissions. Reporting good errors is surprisingly labour intensive.

I'm pretty impressed with Cursor: I've successfully asked it to perform codebase transforms in English, and it's worked! E.g. "Replace all calls foo(..., true) with foo_immediate(...) define a foo_immediate function". I'm still reading the diff and checking tests -- it's still AI after all.

I've been reading about the object-capability model as seen in the E programming language. It reminds me of dependency injection, but used pervasively. Rather than calling static methods, you pass in object arguments and call methods in them.