Emacs Internal #04: Interval Trees — Balancing by Text Length, Not Node Count

It has been a while since my last update. Recently, I lost my job and stepped into the undefined space of looking for the next one. I didn't expect the friction of this state change to be so mentally taxing, but I'll try to keep the blue side up —observing the turbulence without fighting it too hard. I had actually planned to write about Emacs' Interval Trees a couple of months ago. But I found my…