https://bikkel.org/tags/code/ Recent content in code on bikkel|watje.org Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bikkel.org/posts/code/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bikkel.org/posts/code/ The software world tends to claim that code is read more than it is written. By that we mean that code is mostly written once, but other devs who maintain it, or who need to find bugs need to be able to read it in order to understand it. This is why Perl has such a bad rep: It can produce code that is terrible to read, due to the Unix shell and awk influenced “Magic” that can be used to make code shorter and faster, but also close to impossible to read at first glance.