linting – Türker Yıldırım

Reusable skills and agent definitions, and what they are actually for

Deep diveJune 23, 202618 min read

turkerdev/ai-skills and turkerdev/ai-agents, and eighteen months of retyping the same instructions. Context is per-session and knowledge is not.

Three conventions a linter could not express

NoteJune 4, 20262 min read

Stylelint enforcing what it can, and three rules that stayed as prose. The first one is the interesting failure: a rule exists, it works, and its false positive…

The stylesheet that finally got a second maintainer

Deep diveApril 29, 202610 min read

2,100 lines that one person could change, and the year spent fixing that. Every stylesheet change routed through one person for four years.

Testing a lint config with fixtures

NoteMarch 24, 20262 min read

A lint config with tests, which is unusual and is the only way to know a rule change did what was intended. A config change with no test…

Versioning a lint config, where a new rule is a major

NoteFebruary 15, 20262 min read

A shared config published as a package, and the versioning policy that makes it usable. Calling a new rule a major feels excessive until a minor bump breaks…

A shared lint config, and the rule that was on in three of four repositories

NoteFebruary 6, 20261 min read

Four repositories with four nearly identical lint configs, and eleven rules where they disagreed. Printing the resolved configuration rather than diffing the source files is the technique —…

Publishing a shared lint config for a team

Deep diveJanuary 22, 202610 min read

turkerdev/kbox-eslint-rules, and four repositories with four nearly identical configs that disagreed on eleven rules.

Reviewing code I did not write

Deep diveDecember 19, 202510 min read

Review as the skill that matters, and a volume of code that needs it. A change that looks right, passes, and is subtly wrong.

Boundaries drawn on a whiteboard, and the test that checks them

Deep diveNovember 4, 202510 min read

A module diagram from 2023 and a codebase that has moved since. A diagram everybody references and nobody has checked.

A year of an assistant in the editor, measured

Deep diveSeptember 3, 202514 min read

A year of using a model-backed assistant, and an attempt to say something specific about it. Every claim about this is a demonstration or a complaint.