Another relatively quiet month. I’ve mostly been consolidating my tooling around just, uv and Node 23 (see my post on type stripping).

I did try to start switching from Prettier to Biome but it hasn’t all been smooth. I think I need to remove the Prettier plugins from my editors and I had to do some manual setting tweaking to get auto-formatting on save. I’ve increasing being preferring Ruff to Black, UV to pipenv and I suspect it isn’t going to be much different once I get Biome working.

I also tried using Claude for creating specific bits of code and it was a lot better than the Github Copilot experience. I think was the first time that I was getting better code than I could have written as interestingly some of the problems I was asking for solutions to had a wider range of inputs than I was considering. In my particular usecase these categories of input wouldn’t have occurred but I didn’t have any good reason as to why they would be excluded so my own code would probably have failed in some reasonably common scenarios.

Still I feel that so far I’ve been asking for solutions to problems that I know have been solved by someone, I just don’t know where to find the code. I haven’t tried to do anything properly hard or novel yet.