Archive - Bit Maybe Wise

Tsonnet #19 - Type checking and semantic analysis

Adding type checking to Tsonnet

3 hrs ago •

Hercules Merscher

Browsers, toy projects, and grug wisdom.

Jul 10 •

Hercules Merscher

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

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

How Tsonnet learned to index strings

Jun 4 •

Hercules Merscher

May 2025

April 2025

Welcome to the ABEND dump!

Apr 19 •

Hercules Merscher

Tsonnet #14 - Where’s Wally? Adding parsing error tracing

Transforming cryptic error messages into helpful visual cues

Apr 8 •

Hercules Merscher

March 2025

Tsonnet #13 - Carets, columns, and clues: adding lexing error tracing

Because good debugging starts with knowing where to look

Mar 28 •

Hercules Merscher

Compilers all the way

Mar 26 •

Hercules Merscher

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