The grid that would not behave
I do a surprising amount of my development from a phone. Not the typing, I’m not a masochist, but the reviewing… the “does this actually look right” poking at a running build in the gaps between the rest of life. The …
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House rules
I’ve had a Gemini Pro subscription for about eighteen months. In that time it has researched a leisure battery and a diesel heater for the campervan conversion, generated a truly stupid number of pictures of my pets in …
A flag is not a setting
I was reviewing a change to rust-tool-base’s scaffolder when a word stopped me dead. rtb generate config-field. I couldn’t have told you why in that first second… I looked at it and just knew it was wrong. The verb there …
Errors without an error handler
In the porting post I said go-tool-base’s error handler was one of the bits that didn’t survive the move to Rust, and promised to come back to it. Here’s the come-back. The short version is that Rust hands you, for free, …
Errors that tell the user what to do next
Here’s an error message I’ve been on the receiving end of more times than I’d care to count: error: failed to read config file True. Also completely useless! I now know something is broken and I haven’t the faintest idea …
Scaffolding that respects your edits
When I introduced go-tool-base I made a passing promise to come back to “the generator that won’t clobber your edits”. This is me keeping it, partly because it’s the feature I’m quietly most proud of, and partly because …
