Tootfinder

Also:
- got yelled at (uncalled) by someone who thinks he owns the place (ofc he doesn't)
- got frustrated by Liquid and YAML parser, their combo especially
But still.

I wish dependencies would stop embedding their own arguments parser in a package that didn’t need a CLI to begin with.
Eleventy has *three* different dependencies with pretty hefty (and outdated) CLI argument parser libraries 😭
Is there an `overrides`-style feature that works for libraries? (afaik this feature is only for app-level code)

"This project is unmaintained and has known security issues. It is foolish to use this software to process untrusted data“,
says the README of libxml2, a library that many other Open Source projects depend on.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2

GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab
XML parser and toolkit

@… the best idea I have right now (and it’s not good) might be a script to help manage package.json overrides at the app code level.
(also I agree with your take. I’d also accept a dep with an extra CLI that uses Node’s arg parser)

Also yesterday at #OpenSSLCon25: Alex Gaynor of #Python #Cryptography saying their own X.509 parser written in Rust is six times faster than

from my link log —
The essence of LR parsing: Partial evaluation can turn a general parser into a parser generator.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/215465.215579
saved 2025-11-25

Yet another dev bitten by YAML parser stripping out underscores from strings that otherwise contain only digits. ✋
#technology #webdev #softwareEngineering #frustration

Finally got around documenting a little more the small CLI app "framework" I've been using for almost a dozen projects now (incl. several work projects). The package in question is now already 3 years old (https://thi.ng/args), but I've only just managed now to add a basic, commented usage example for th…

Declarative, functional & typechecked CLI argument/options parser, value coercions etc.

So Intel have added a so-called On-Die Certifying Authority (ODCA) with ME gen 3 version 15 based platforms.
That is also explained in the recent CSME whitepaper.
I figured that the FTPR CPD manifest contains a new extension now for certificate revocation, including a URL to CRL data.
That extension's data itself is encoded as ASN.1 DER, so I need yet another parser. Uh-oh... which one should I choose, does anyone have recent experiences to share? 🙃
I am checking t…

DisCoCLIP: A Distributional Compositional Tensor Network Encoder for Vision-Language Understanding
Kin Ian Lo, Hala Hawashin, Mina Abbaszadeh, Tilen Limback-Stokin, Hadi Wazni, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21287

DisCoCLIP: A Distributional Compositional Tensor Network Encoder for Vision-Language Understanding
Recent vision-language models excel at large-scale image-text alignment but often neglect the compositional structure of language, leading to failures on tasks that hinge on word order and predicate-argument structure. We introduce DisCoCLIP, a multimodal encoder that combines a frozen CLIP vision transformer with a novel tensor network text encoder that explicitly encodes syntactic structure. Sentences are parsed with a Combinatory Categorial Grammar parser to yield distributional word tensors…

Day 26: Emily Short
If you know who Short is, you know exactly why she's on this list. If you don't, you're probably in the majority. She's an absolutely legendary author within the interactive fiction (IF) community, which gets somewhat pigeonholed by stuff like Zork when there's actually a huge range of stuff in the medium some of which isn't even puzzle-focused, and Short has been writing & coding on the bleeding edge of things for decades.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Short's work in graduate school, where we played "Galatea" as part of an interactive fiction class. Short uses a lot of clever parser tricks to make your conversation with a statue feel very fluid and conversational, giving to contemporary audiences a great example of how vibrant interaction with a well-designed agent can be in contrast to an LLM, if you're willing to put in some work on bespoke parsing & responses (although the user does need to know basic IF conventions). While I didn't explore the full range of Galatea's many possible outcomes, it left a strong impression on me as a vision for what IF could be besides dorky puzzles, and I think that "visionary" is a great term to describe Short.
If you'd like you get a feel for her (very early) work, you can play Galatea here: #30AuthorsNoMen

#ReleaseFriday — New version 3.1.0 of the recently talked about https://thi.ng/args package, a declarative & functional CLI argument parser & app framework. I updated the arg specifications to be fully self-desc…