Ram Balachandran
rambalachandran.bsky.social
Ram Balachandran
@rambalachandran.bsky.social
Engineer, with passion for Automation. Focused on leveraging AI and Tech for Core Engineering Organizations. Loves to Bike, Hike, Swim and Camp
Try uBlock Origin Lite (compatible with Manifest V3) and set filtering mode to complete.
June 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Instead we need to do tricks and patchworks to integrate #Slack or #Zapier to capture these comments in a central location.
March 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Reposted by Ram Balachandran
... and if anyone works with projects that use nested .gitignore files (apparently Rust programmers deal with this a lot?) I'd appreciate help testing this bug fix relating to that - instructions for running the fixed branch using uvx are in the issue comment github.com/simonw/files...
Nested .gitignore files can cause lots of files to be skipped · Issue #40 · simonw/files-to-prompt
Currently, files-to-prompt adds patterns in nested .gitignore files directly to the top level ignore rules, without any prefix. This can cause lots of files to be skipped. For example, Astral's too...
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February 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Thank you, your tool looks much simpler interface compared to aider. Will try to test them both and let you know
February 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Simon, any advantage running your llm tool over aider for such analysis?
February 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
So while #LLM can help you write template #code faster, it does not reason to find if you really need to write that code. Only ingenuity driven by human procrastination can help you achieve that 😄
February 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
So, recollecting my millenial roots, I went back to good ole #Google and #StackOverflow .Voila, there was a library `jsonpickle` that is purpose built for problems like this which is robust and well tested.
February 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
In case you are wondering, the output is

=REGEXEXTRACT(A1, "^(?:\d+(?:[-/]\d+|[A-Za-z])?\s+)([^,]+)")
February 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM