The Meditative Coder

Those who know me may want to sit down for this. It will come as a shock that I have decided to enter the 21st century and learn Python. I k...

I've been thinking a lot recently about code maintainability, including scripts. I write a lot of shell scripts, usually restricting mys...

My earlier post about using ChatGPT to help identify Perl program bugs was only part of the story. I had a second bug that also took me way ...

 I was proud of the "LintGPT" title until I googled it and somebody on SlashDot beat me to it. So I had an uninitialized variable ...

We've all been there. We want a set of bytes containing some specific binary data to feed into some program. In my case, it's often ...

In an earlier post , I discovered that a simple Perl program can outperform grep by about double. Today I discovered that some patterns can ...

As my previous post indicates, I've done some Perl noodling this past week. (I can't believe that was my first Perl post on this bl...

So, I've been crawling through a debug log file that is 195 million lines long. I've been using a lot of "grep | wc" to co...