I've created my first standalone Rust library! line-numbers is a simple project for finding line numbers of string offsets, efficiently: https://crates.io/crates/line-numbers
It's factored out of difftastic as it's something I want to reuse elsewhere.
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There's something pleasingly self-referential about configuring an agent by talking to it.
> Remember that [fact about data formats].
Agent: Noted.
... realise nothing happened ...
> Write to your rules file that when I say "remember", I want you to write to the rules file.
I've written difftastic packaging instructions: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/packaging_difftastic.html
The different distros have taken different approaches, so I'm trying to help with common gotchas — don't forget the man page!
Feedback welcome, especially if you've ever packaged something 🙂
I have a bunch of open tasks on my GH repos, so I tried asking ChatGPT and Claude to write a card-based web UI that showed some random open issues.
ChatGPT gave me something that worked, but the Claude mock-ups look better (and render inline!).





