miniblog.

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.

I really appreciate that GitHub has separate icons for pass and fail in CI. I've worked with Jenkins plugins that rely on red/green colour too much.

Today I learnt about a cunning trick used by GNU diff to make Myer's algorithm faster: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/similar/issues/15 If you do an initial pass to find items that only occur on one side, you can discard them before diffing! They'll always be shown as changed.