Posts in Goofy Programs

My friend Chasen sent me a message tonight that he would also like to see more of the goofy program files, and who am I to say no? Today’s entry comes via my last job, where I spent an awful lot of time looking at email. You probably know what email is, but maybe you don’t know what it actually looks like underneath.1 The part of the emails you actually read are the content; email also has a large set of headers that contain metadata about the message and its path to you; they’re very similar to HTTP headers.

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After my last (aka, the inaugural) goofy program entry, I was overwhelmed with feedback1 that people wanted more, and who am I to deny them? Today’s entry is a program I call jlink (for “Jira link”).2 We use Jira at work for task tracking, and the ticket identifiers (like “ABC-1234”) wind up littering everything we do. One day at work I was writing a document that had a long listing of Jira tickets, and I wanted to add links to them.

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Most of the programs I write are what I generally think of as stupid programs. That is: they do one tiny thing that was annoying me for whatever reason, and usually the thing wasn’t even all that interesting to begin with. A lot of the code I write, especially off the clock, falls into this category, and I feel like this is a category of program that doesn’t get talked about much, so I’m going to start talking about them.

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