Another Femtoblogger Rewrite with Codex
I had Codex help me with the parts of femtoblogger which annoyed me.
As I said earlier, I was ambivalent about Lighter. I decided to ditch Lighter and just go straight to llibsqlite3. Codex and I stomped through that table by table in my model layer with me asking it to convert a table and it doing all the work. 100% success and much faster than I would have done it by hand.
The I decided to address the HTML generation. I'd been using Stencil and template files. I asked Codex to make me a HTML DSL so I could write my HTML in Swift and use Swift for the flow of control and computed values instead of trying to map that on to the Stencil capabilities. 100% success and much faster than I would have done by hand. Codex was reading the Stencil templates and generating the HTML DSL with interspersed Swift control flow and values which also extending the DSL every time it found an unimplemented HTML element. I had to do a little steering on the shape of the DSL API to make it come out the way I wanted, so not an unattended change, but easily done 10 times faster than by hand and without all the tiny errors I would have introduced.