Today I learnt that Emacs will do a best-effort parse of expressions in comments too, unless you set parse-sexp-ignore-comments.
That's all well and good until org.el has ASCII smileys! https://github.com/bzg/org-mode/blob/4d8d7d6cb42e388572b4f5d227e9b3c9da6ca4a7/lisp/org.el#L4815-L4816 ("unbalanced paren")
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Today in cursed C code:
void foo(int32_t int32_t, int32_t bar);
Since C puts identifiers and typedefs in the same namespace, this code just produces a confusing compile error about the type of bar!
(This occurred in some real code after macro expansion.)
Today I learnt about yamllint: if you're using YAML, you can at least ensure you're not suffering from the 'Norway problem':
I tried OpenClaw today and I was surprised by the short time horizon of conversations. Am I holding it wrong?
W: Summarise open issues on my GH repo.
O: (summary)
W: OK, remember how I want you to format content [..].
O: Noted.
W: Summarise the issues again.
O: What issues?