Flat Files Are Hard
File names are easy, right? Over the years I’ve built up an impressive computing fabric of my own, consisting primarily of two boxes that sit on my desk. These boxes collectively host the family infrastructure, side projects, open source work, and all the harebrained schemes and crazy ideas I dream up. They’re also a bit of a mess. In an attempt to clean those up, I spent a few days last month writing a file cataloging system.
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