old_contents: const fs = require('fs');
  const path = require('path');
  
  const filterCategories = require('./helpers.js').filterCategories;
  const createSidebar = require('./specialPages.js').createSidebar;
  const createBlogIndex = require('./specialPages.js').createBlogIndex;
  const publishCategory = require('./publishCategory.js').publishCategory;
  const editors = require('./editors.js');
  
  const mathbloggingDir = path.resolve(process.argv[2]);
  if (!mathbloggingDir) {
      console.warn('No CLI argument for target directory -- stopping')
      return;
  }
  
  // The action
  
  // load the json files
  const feeds = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../data/feeds.json'), 'utf8'));
  const entries = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../data/entries.json'), 'utf8'));
  
  // extract categories
  const categories = filterCategories(entries);
  
  // create sidebar HTML (jekyll include for navigation)
  createSidebar(categories, mathbloggingDir);
  
  // create the blog index page (for easy look-up of current list of blogs)
  createBlogIndex(feeds.blogs, mathbloggingDir);
  
  // merge feeds for each category and process
  categories.forEach((category) => publishCategory(category, entries, mathbloggingDir));
  
  // generate Editors' Picks
  // editors(mathbloggingDir);
  
new_contents: const fs = require('fs');
  const path = require('path');
  
  const filterCategories = require('./helpers.js').filterCategories;
  const createSidebar = require('./specialPages.js').createSidebar;
  const createBlogIndex = require('./specialPages.js').createBlogIndex;
  const publishCategory = require('./publishCategory.js').publishCategory;
  // const editors = require('./editors.js');
  
  const mathbloggingDir = path.resolve(process.argv[2]);
  if (!mathbloggingDir) {
      console.warn('No CLI argument for target directory -- stopping')
      return;
  }
  
  // The action
  
  // load the json files
  const feeds = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../data/feeds.json'), 'utf8'));
  const entries = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.resolve(__dirname, '../data/entries.json'), 'utf8'));
  
  // extract categories
  const categories = filterCategories(entries);
  
  // create sidebar HTML (jekyll include for navigation)
  createSidebar(categories, mathbloggingDir);
  
  // create the blog index page (for easy look-up of current list of blogs)
  createBlogIndex(feeds.blogs, mathbloggingDir);
  
  // merge feeds for each category and process
  categories.forEach((category) => publishCategory(category, entries, mathbloggingDir));
  
  // generate Editors' Picks
  // editors(mathbloggingDir);
  
subject: disable editors.js (again)