miniblog.

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.)

It seems really odd to me that git uses 'cached' terminology for staging. For example, `git add somefile.rs; git diff --cached`. Caching implies state that you don't mind losing. There's very little state I want to lose in version control!

Are there any nice cross-platform ways to trigger a notification from a terminal? I've been using https://pushover.net/ but you need to use a browser and it's noticeably slower than the native options. (Pushover is great for mobile notifications though.)

Terminad is a really interesting approach to rendering markdown in the CLI. It deliberately doesn't render links, so you can always see both the link text and the URL. In a browser you have hover to see URLs, but not necessarily in a terminal.

Should code completion offer private methods/fields? If the user chooses a private method, you can offer a quickfix to change its visibility. It's clutter though. I frequently find myself wanting fields that I haven't exposed yet, and frustrated that the IDE hides them.

Blogged: Devlog 2: The Importance of Sandboxing Exploring PL opportunities when you have a first-class sandbox.

Is there a good canonical name for autofixes, where a static analysis tool can apply a change to resolve an issue? Clang calls them fix-its, LSP calls them quickfixes.