miniblog.

One interesting consequence of the rise of LLMs: there's more demand for tools that handle untrusted input. Arbitrary HTML+JS can be safely run in a browser. Lean can check an arbitrary proof. These work really well with an LLM that can be wrong, but sometimes gives exactly what you want. Are there other tools in this family?

"Example Driven Development" using Glamorous and Pharo Smalltalk: https://medium.com/feenk/an-example-of-example-driven-development-4dea0d995920 Tests returning values and composing is a really interesting model. It establishes structure and shows which test failure is the most 'fundamental'.

It's weird that GitHub shows time since the last commit, but not time since the first commit. It's a nice way of seeing how mature a project is.