Bit Maybe Wise

Tsonnet #23 - Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the most self-referential of them all?

Tsonnet objects can now reference themselves using self, but this required careful implementation of unique object identifiers, eager scope checking to…

Sep 10 • 

Hercules Merscher

Debugging shift-reduce conflicts: Lessons learned building Tsonnet's parser

Sometimes the best way to understand parsing conflicts is to watch your parser make mathematically wrong decisions.

Sep 1 • 

Hercules Merscher

2

August 2025

ABEND dump #21

Welcome to the ABEND dump!

Aug 25 • 

Hercules Merscher

2

Tsonnet #22 - Fixing a "lazy" bug

Fixing Tsonnet's lazy evaluation inconsistency in objects

Aug 24 • 

Hercules Merscher

1

Tsonnet #21 - Making object definitions more dynamic

Extending Tsonnet's object syntax to support local variable definitions next to object fields.

Aug 18 • 

Hercules Merscher

1

July 2025

Tsonnet #20 - Adding the sweet stuff

Implementing the syntactic sugar because nobody wants to escape quotes in their cocktail recipes

Jul 29 • 

Hercules Merscher

1

Tsonnet #19 - Type checking and semantic analysis

Adding type checking to Tsonnet

Jul 13 • 

Hercules Merscher

1

ABEND dump #20

Browsers, toy projects, and grug wisdom.

Jul 10 • 

Hercules Merscher

1

June 2025

Tsonnet #18 - Property-based testing saves the day (and my sanity)

Sometimes the best way to test your code is to throw completely random stuff at it and see what sticks. Turns out, our Env module is stickier than we…

Jun 6 • 

Hercules Merscher

What if your tests could think of edge cases for you?

Ever feel smug about your passing tests, only to have reality humble you with a single weird input?

Jun 5 • 

Hercules Merscher

2

Tsonnet #17 - Indexing a String: From copy-paste to unification

How Tsonnet learned to index strings

Jun 4 • 

Hercules Merscher

May 2025

ABEND dump #19

Welcome to the ABEND dump!

May 25 • 

Hercules Merscher

1