It’s been a busy few months, personally, professionally, socially, bike-ally. The randonneuring season has started. There was travel for work, and then non-travel work that nevertheless took up a lot of time. I’ve seen friends often, thankfully, and we’ve seen some good shows (LCD Soundsystem, a highlight). I, myself, played a "show" with some friends (i.e., Somerville Porchfest). There are always things to do, and the list can be overwhelming. I’ve worked on making that list less overwhelming by dating things, ensuring that I’m only looking at the things that need to be done today or soon.

I started working on a little CLI app to inscribe this, but it sprawled and I haven’t had much time to write code anyway (when I have time to write, I try to prioritize prose, sometimes a poem, sometimes a song, now that music is a thing I’m doing again). At some point I realized, though, that an old app I’d written a long time ago when I was learning Rust could maybe be updated to do more of the trick. So I did some minor updates, and released shittd on crates.io. It’s a silly little tool, but I like it.

I’ve got a 0.4.0 branch that I’m noodling on, but much like the planned asciidocr update, who knows when I’ll actually get to it. I’m still learning this new job and learning what kind of time I’m going to have around it. I have clearly not been able to keep up with the more regular writing here that I had semi-promised. But these things happen, it’s fine.

The point is that I have not forgotten about this kind of writing, I’m slowly getting my arms around my time again, I’m having fun making tools about it, and, hopefully soon, I’ll be able to post here at least somewhat more often. I’ve still got so many things simmering on the back-burner(s) that I’d like to shout about, and it is true that I do like to shout.