Blog author, yes on being a PLT dork. It was mainly very funny to me how I _immediately_ knew what category of code the tweet's snippet was about. Just instantly knew this was a type spec translator. Seen 10 of them, seen them all.
I have `MaybeRequired` serving almost the exact same purpose! You are right it’s a common problem, a useful approach, and I just wish TS had better support for case analysis than chained ternaries.
