Daljit Dhadwal

Ideas, books, software, and other useful tools

Those aren’t warts, they’re battle scars!

I can’t find where I originally read someone saying, “Those aren’t warts, they’re battle scars.” It might’ve been in the comments section on some software blog. The quote is in reference to how ugly source code often looks, especially code that’s been in use for a very long time. Back in 2000, Joel Spolsky wrote […]

A replacement for Notepad

One simple but very handy program that comes with every Windows computer is Notepad. Notepad is an example of a plain text editor. Plain text editors are great for when you need to get rid of formatting from text you’ve copied over from a website. Also, if you need to copy and paste a lot […]