I've realised that there are text transformations I can do in markdown that often aren't possible in rich text.
E.g. from
[foo bar](https://example.com/)
to
foo [bar](https://example.com/)
Rich text usually forces me to remove the old link then highlight the new range.
miniblog.
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LLMs are great at style transfer, and this works surprisingly well for syntactic transformations too.
I rewrote a small website's EJS templates to 1500 LOC of TSX with a oneshot in Claude. It took ~12 minutes, but it just worked.
(TSX seems nicer than EJS for static analysis.)
Really cute Clojure project that builds a full parse tree (i.e including whitespace), allows code to transform the _abstract_ syntax tree, then splices the changed sexp whilst preserving source comments! https://vimeo.com/45695419
Enables code transformations that look like macros.
Squid is a remarkable quasiquotation library that ensures all of your code transformations are sound! It checks for types and free variables, and has a really neat way of pattern-matching on code with alpha conversion.
