Life has been pretty busy lately. We put the baby to bed at seven
and my wife, who gets up in the middle of the night to feed her,
goes to the bedroom to read/fall asleep shortly after eight. I do
a feeding with the baby between 8:30pm and 9pm. So that usually
leaves me from around 9 until I go to sleep at 11 with my little
slice of quiet time to do what I want with. I am technically still
on baby duty until midnight, but she almost always sleeps through.

So I often code with that time, read a book, or catch up on gopher
or other non-web (usually pubnix) stuff. Lately I have just been
so tired it has been difficult to stay awake. Bombadillo is mostly
in maintenence mode, so I have not been working on it too much.
Though I did look into and then decide against adding dict protocol
support (the protocol was much more complex than I was expecting
and jsut wouldnt work right in the Bombadillo).

Tonight I worked on Hermes, the text editor I have been building 
up, for a bit. I improved using numerical multipliers to actions
that include deletion... so 10dw to delete 10 words. It had been
working, but only the last word was getting added to the paste
buffer. I have worked that out and cut out a bunch of needless 
code (including a lot of memory management).

I have a few code projects on my mind, but have not had much drive
to really dig in as much as would be necessary. Those two are:

1. Build an IRC client
2. Built a BitTorrent client

The former because I like building the tools I use. The later,
because I would like to learn more about P2P networks and peer
discovery and that seems like a good way to start that will
involve but not be limited to long slogs through theory and
documentation, but result in something usable.

While trying to find the energy to do either of those I have
been reading 'Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'
by Haruki Murakami. I have read a lot of his books in the past.
This is definitely the weirdest. I am enjoying it, though I am
missing the fast pace of the 'John Dies at the End' series, which
I had been reading immediately prior.

I also forked stagit, a statig website generator for git repos. I
updated the html to a more modern style using semantic elements and
added a default stylesheet. It had been using tables for everything,
which was fine in 1997... but is less than great these days. The
html in the fork should allow people a wider range of options to
customize their styling/theme as they see fit. I did not, however,
add much styling... just enough... and absolutely ZERO javascript.

I may make a version that generates gemini pages as well since I
do not think that particular tooling is yet available for gemini
and the conversion should be very trivial. Maybe that will be
tomorrow night's project.

Now, back to the novel!



[0] My stagit fork (still in progress, but very workable):
    https://git.rawtext.club/sloum/stagit