miniblog.

I frequently find myself running: $ slowish $ slowish | jq $ slowish | jq | grep I feel there must be a better way to build up pipelines incrementally without re-running. I could save each output to a file, but it's more verbose, and most of these tools have nicer output when stdout is a TTY.

I'm coming round to the view that a main function shouldn't take arguments. For example, in Rust you have to call std::env::args() to get CLI arguments. This makes Hello World less verbose, and gives you more flexibility in setting up CLI argument parsers.

I've been using a 'golden tests' library for testing my parser, and it's just delightful. Rather than writing a verbose assertion about the resulting AST, I can just re-run my tests until the output looks good!