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Push ifs up and fors down
A short note on two related rules of thumb.
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Why LSP?
LSP (language server protocol) is fairly popular today. There's a standard explanation of why that is the case. You probably have seen this picture before:
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Unified versus Split Diff
Which is better for code reviews, a unified diff or a split diff?
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Use Long Options in Scripts
Many command line utilities support short form options (-f) and long form options (--force). Short form is for interactive usage. In scripts, use the long form.
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How LSP could have been better
We talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues.
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Make.ts
Up Enter Up Up Enter Up Up Up Enter
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How a Zig IDE Could Work
Zig is a very interesting language from an IDE point of view. Some aspects of it are friendly to IDEs, like a very minimal and simple-to-parse syntax (Zig can even be correctly lexed line-by-line, very cool!), the absence of syntactic macros, and ability to do a great deal of semantic analysis on a file-by-file basis…
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Zig language server and cancellation
I already have a dedicated post about a hypothetical Zig language server. But perhaps the most important thing I've written so far on the topic is the short note at the end of Zig and Rust.
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Git Things
A grab bag of less frequently talked about git adjacent points.
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I want a better shell (2019)
I want a better shell.