Run Your Code Generator as a Test

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 22:05:47 +0800

At some point in a project’s life, somebody runs a code generator. Maybe they point a client generator at an OpenAPI document, or feed a .proto file to protoc, or write a small script that turns a config file into a lookup table. The output is genuinely useful, so it gets committed, and the project’s interfaces improve overnight. Then, being diligent, the author adds a line to the README: “After changing the schema, re-run make generate and commit the result.”

WebAssembly as a Platform for Abstraction

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:55:00 +0800

In a project I’ve been playing around with recently, we’ve encountered the dilemma where you want to make it easy for users to write their own application logic using the system but at the same time want to keep that logic decoupled from the implementation details of whatever platform the application is running on.

If you’ve been programming for any amount of time your immediate reaction is probably “why bother mentioning this, doesn’t it just fall out of good library design?”, and normally I would totally agree with you, except I forgot to mention a couple of important details…

Testing on Michael-F-Bryan

Run Your Code Generator as a Test

WebAssembly as a Platform for Abstraction