miniblog.

I've been working on a search tool for a website with 9K items and a dumb implementation works just fine. I'd normally gravitate to a library or tool like elasticsearch (ES). Adding custom filters etc is trivial on handrolled code. I wonder what scale requires actual search infra like ES.

I feel like enums/variants/tagged unions are underexplored in dynamically typed languages. As soon as you see a pattern match for a given enum variant (e.g. colour::RED), your can IDE can be helpful if the enum definition changes. Normally I only get this with static typing.

Normally "make bad states unrepresentable" is super helpful advice. I keep trying to use itertools::EitherOrBoth in my APIs but I go back to (Option<T>, Option<T>) every time. I just end up with too much duplication in between the Left, Right and Both cases.