.....................................................diary

   rainy birthday

   this is good

     A blessing, onto my newly empty hands.
     

   hole in the head

     From winter of  last  year,  but despite telling myself
     this all would be  better  kept  to myself, having this
     sit around is eating holes into my hard drive.


  .....................................................hacks

   tenpo, a tiny but friendly pure-bash metronome

     As clever and elegant as  I could come up with. But not
     a gimmick; at least  it's what I actually use. The only
     hard dependency is  your terminal bell; a couple lesser
     caveats can be found commented within.
     

   a sed script for prose text line length

     Essentially fmt(1), but  does what you mean without any
     additional flags. Also,  can edit files directly, since
     sed.

     I have this recurring urge to make it hyphenate  too -- 
     despite personally loathing  hyphenated text -- just to
     justify its existence that little more. I'm like... 72%
     certain it could be done in GNU sed.

   ...speaking of justification

     Put this  function  in  your  .{bash,ksh}rc and use the
     shell to  justify  your  plaintext  prose, if you agree
     with me on groff  being messy overkill for this kind of
     workflow.
     
     The meat  of  this  comes  from the prose text editor I
     made for myself -- if you  hang  out on com, there is a
     slim chance you may have  heard  me talking about it --
     the state of  it  is  that it's in fact mostly finished
     now. I have been  greatly  enjoying it for many months,
     despite lingering hiccups.  More  to come, maybe a demo
     video, who knows.