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New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst"

matijsvzuijlen — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:35:59 +0000

Thanks, that makes sense. I actually just parsed aes as related to encryption without even considering how weird that was given the contect.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst"

matijsvzuijlen — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:32:18 +0000

Yes, I will do that!

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst"

matijsvzuijlen — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:56:48 +0000

Why are all the parameters full words except 'labs'? I find it jarring because to me 'lab' is short for laboratory, not label.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "How Markdown took over the world"

matijsvzuijlen — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:58:01 +0000

I wrote one for my own use (on Linux): https://github.com/mvz/mdv

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Archiving Git branches as tags"

matijsvzuijlen — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 22:23:53 +0000

What made you decide to squash when merging instead of leaving the commits in the history so you can always bisect?

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)"

matijsvzuijlen — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:20:13 +0000

I worked on a project that used haml, and merge conflicts in the haml files were very hard to resolve due to the lack of any nesting info besides indentation.

I think it's worse than, e.g., typical yaml files because the nesting is deeper.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s"

matijsvzuijlen — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:54:40 +0000

If you already know k8s, this is probably true. If you don't it's hard to know what bits you need, and need to learn about, to get something simple set up.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Cognitive load is what matters"

matijsvzuijlen — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 05:42:02 +0000

I can understand requiring 100% test coverage, but it seems to me that requiring a test file for every file is preventing your team from doing useful refactoring.

What made your team decide on that rule? Could your team decide to drop it since it hinders improving the design of your code?

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Turning Claude Code into my best design partner"

matijsvzuijlen — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:03:37 +0000

What makes you think TDD assumes that? It sounds like the complete opposite of what TDD is about.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models [pdf]"

matijsvzuijlen — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:20:15 +0000

For people who, like me, prefer to read the abstract first: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.06471

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs"

matijsvzuijlen — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 05:51:47 +0000

In such cases, I generally checkout main, do the side quest, and rebase my original branch on top of it. Then, I can just continue without waiting for the side quest to be merged. Depending on the situation, I may make a separate PR for the side quest, but I don't have to wait for it to get merged.

Alternatively, if you don't like rebasing, you can merge the side quest branch into your project branch instead.

Either way, you don't have to wait for the side quest to get merged.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Git as a debugging tool"

matijsvzuijlen — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:30:31 +0000

The idea is that --amend would be used before pushing the commit that it amends, and so before a reviewer ever sees the original commit.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Destruction of nuclear bombs using ultra-high energy neutrino beam (2003) [pdf]"

matijsvzuijlen — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 08:02:16 +0000

Linking to the abstract instead would have been nice.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Pragmatic Versioning – An Alternative to Semver"

matijsvzuijlen — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 06:50:36 +0000

If you follow SemVer strictly, the version bump is not necessary unless the number of rerenders is part of the documented API.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "HTML First"

matijsvzuijlen — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 06:33:00 +0000

What could the frameworks do to make it more natural for inexperienced developers to do the right thing?

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Git rebase, what can go wrong"

matijsvzuijlen — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:45:28 +0000

This means having to keep these branches around cluttering up everything, and makes git bisect a lot more complicated.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "AsciiDoc, Liquid and Jekyll"

matijsvzuijlen — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:37:18 +0000

The format itself has several warts, like the ancestor list continuation syntax, or whether or not to add a backslash if you want a literal asterisk.

The implementation lacks checking, so for example if you have some text between square brackets, it will often just get dropped even if the contents is not valid as an attribute list.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Why Is Markdown Popular?"

matijsvzuijlen — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:27:38 +0000

Asciidoc starts out great but has a lot of surprising gotchas and complexities.

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Time Till Open Source Alternative"

matijsvzuijlen — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 11:55:45 +0000

Wasn't that Perforce?

New comment by matijsvzuijlen in "Markdeep"

matijsvzuijlen — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 11:03:57 +0000

The result looks beautiful but there are too many surprising magical actions for my taste. E.g., I wonder how "Last year MIT handed out 104 degrees to wombats." would be rendered.