I'm dropping a little library called "okayfail" implementing a Result<Value, Error> type for TypeScript. (Like the Rust Result type, or the NeverThrow TypeScript library.)
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I'll let you in on a small secret: I hate LaTeX with a passion. It's a bloated mess with crazy syntax. It generates reams of warnings you can never totally get rid of, and some of the most confusing and/or unhelpeful errors I have ever seen. It needs to be run N times in a row. It even has a stupid name.
A few weeks ago I got to make some of my code 1000 times faster, without changing the underlying complexity! As the title implies, this involved making Java reflection calls faster.