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March 12, 2025

The Art of Formatting Code
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Ever wondered how to make a code formatter? This post does a good job showing the main problems you might encounter. The impact of Unicode is especially funny. Very interesting stuff.

Tech Notes: Rust trait object layout

OK more questions than answers I guess... That said, it shows interesting differences in design choices with C++ to support the traits system.

Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts - Ars Technica
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So much data trapped in PDFs indeed... Unfortunately VLM are still not reliable enough to be unleashed without tight validation of the output.

How Long Should Functions Be? - by Kent Beck
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Nice post. Explains well why the answer is not a number to target. You want to impact the distribution.