The Code Diarist

A diary about code

September 2025

Updated September 30, 2025

The articles listed here were posted during September, 2025, as the leaves began to turn. I feel less green these days, too.

September 30, 2025 Use The Right Tool
Do not pound nails with a dish-rag, nor wash dishes with a hammer...

September 24, 2025 A Dichotomy of Documentation
I often grumble about official documentation for certain examples of classic open-source. Perhaps I should not, but I do.

September 8, 2025 The Editor Wars
If you desire to witness the Geek equivalent of Ultimate Fighting, lock a few of us into a cage then direct us designate one text editor as superior to all others. Caution! stinky stuff will hit fans who stand too close!

September 5, 2025 Old Code Wins Again
Old tools can still work well, if you know how to use them. Recently I used sed, a built-in UNIX/Linux command-line tool, to reformat the html code for a web page.

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