Back in the day Ultra Compressor II (DOS) trickled my interest in compression and data recovery as I was learning about computers.
With the knowledge I have now, it was fascinating to look through it with an LLM and also quite nostalgic re-creating the UI I only vaguely remember.
![// serialize serializes p as json.
func (p *someThing) serialize() ([]byte, error) {
var dst bytes.Buffer
comp := minlz.NewWriter(&dst)
err := cmp.Or(json.NewEncoder(comp).Encode(p), comp.Close())
return dst.Bytes(), err
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ufsgk5krmtsfuypumkrekofw/bafkreifwfno56lmosgetoz3yjwpydjokej45zu2lkgexddzpjix7s7q2ji)
