Huon on the internet

The Magit package for Emacs is my Git UI of choice, and git worktrees are very convenient. They mesh up particularly well by adding the built-in magit-insert-worktrees to magit-status-sections-hook. With this, the magit status buffer shows a summary...

The TypeScript compiler options strictNullChecks and noImplicitAny interact in a strange way: enabling just strictNullChecks leads to type errors that disappear after enabling noImplicitAny too, meaning getting stricter has fewer errors!
This is a low-consequence curiosity, but I did trip over it in the real world, while updating some modules at work to be stricter....

I occasionally add context instructions to an AI tool, but then am not sure whether those changes were picked up by the tool. The fun way to debug this is to add “Always speak like a pirate” to the instructions. This works in all tools. Context engineering...

I’ve noticed different people seem to use the word “deprecating” to mean two different things, when it comes to code and/or features: either removing entirely, or discouraging its use. I think it’s useful to have specific labels for both of these of...