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ABEND dump #24

Welcome to ABEND dump #24!

Dec 31, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

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Tsonnet series - Table of contents

Every post published about Tsonnet

Dec 29, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

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Tsonnet #29 - Making inner references work

Inner references require lazy evaluation to prevent infinite loops when variables hold self-referential objects.

Dec 12, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

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Tsonnet #28 - Debugging gets pretty (printed)

derive show; // compiler does the rest

Dec 9, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

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November 2025

ABEND dump #23

Book reading philosophy, browser trust issues, career pendulums, and space BBQ.

Nov 10, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

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Tsonnet #27 - Consistency, consistency, consistency

The one where I reorganize function parameters and feel weirdly accomplished.

Nov 3, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

October 2025

Tsonnet #26 - Chain me maybe, part 2

No reference leaks allowed.

Oct 29, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

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Tsonnet #25 - Chain me maybe, part 1

Teaching Tsonnet to walk through nested object fields.

Oct 28, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

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Tsonnet #24 - Getting to the root of things: top-level object access

Tsonnet now supports top-level object access with the $ operator, allowing you to reference root-level fields from anywhere in nested structures.

Oct 19, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

September 2025

ABEND dump #22

Welcome to the ABEND dump!

Sep 24, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

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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, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

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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, 2025 • Hercules Merscher

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