Hey y'all. This is gonna be a short one. My post about Arborium ended up doing severals. By this I mean it was briefly the number 1 post on Lobste.rs, which is an invite-only diet orange site. Thankfully, I've only received a small amount of harassment from this. Anyways Netrunner card reviews coming soon.
btw this site does have an rss feed it's at https://ewie.online/feed/feed.xml or https://ewie.online/feed/feed.json my feed page is meant to teach people how to get into rss and i haven't got around to it yet cos it's a hobby site ;-;
It would be an understatement to say that I am mildly interested in syntax highlighting.[^2] While I have yet to write a full-fledged parser myself, my blog's[^9] syntax highlighting plugin is custom-built. Under the hood it uses the Lezer[^1] parsing and highlighting system, which is inspired by the gold standard of syntax highlighting used in all modern code editors except Visual Studio Code: tree-sitter. I think Lezer is a great tool and it's especially great in the use case of syntax highlighting on the web,[^3] but I've still kept my eye out for the chance to use tree-sitter instead.
Last weekend while scrolling through some quieter feeds in my RSS reader, I came across an article which might be the something better I was looking for.
fasterthanli.me
Introducing arborium, a tree-sitter distribution
About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: When we could be looking at this: And of course, as always, there are reasons why thi...
Arborium is a high-performance syntax highlighting tool powered by tree-sitter created by Amos Wenger. Amos (also known as fasterthanlime) is a long-time open source developer who I greatly respected. I learned Rust from his Advent of Code article series, and I appreciate his commitment to correctness and speed. I was especially excited to learn about Arborium because it was designed to work on the web using Javascript. I could use this!
made some pretty substantial edits to my previous post, specifically the parts on why i found gerard's post misleading, and being more clear about the subject of that post's (not david gerard) financial stake in ai
okay! i'm all caught up. thanks for waiting through my absence. i've been very low energy yet busy as of late. i have surgery later this week so i'll try to queue up some posts for the weekend
lol that's so broken i need to fix it
They say “great artists steal”, and I wanted to showcase how I’ve solved some problems I’ve run into on my site by showing some niche dependencies I’ve picked up. Note that these are mostly files that have originated from other sources that I’ve copied in by hand as opposed to imported.
I will go more into depth on this on a future article on how syntax highlighting on my blog works, but to summarize: I use a tool called Lezer to handle syntax highlighting. This library is part of the pipeline my blog uses for adding that syntax highlighting. This was written by Joel Gustafson and mentioned in an incredible blog post going into some of the history around syntax highlighting. I copied it into my site basically wholesale, and you can find it in my codebase here (converted to javascript from typescript for some reason). I generally prefer copying code in over importing it, because it helps me understand what the code does, and it allows me to tune the code to better fit the needs of my s…