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 * title "SHMD & 2021"
 * author "Dylan Lom"
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SHMD & 2021
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I can finally do it -- the date is `$(timestamp)`!

I've moved away from the TCL thing that I originally wrote for this, and have
written [shmd][1], a pre-processor for markdown (really there's no reason for it
to be a *markdown* pre-processor, however that's what I'm going to use it for
and it's designed with markdown's syntax in mind.

I had fun writing it, but I'm still not super sure what the benefits will be, so
I'll have to start writing more blog posts to no-one to figure it out :).

If you want to look at the source for this post (with the current stylesheet I
have I'd say that it actually reads better than the HTML version), you can just
change the extension from `.html` to `.md`. All posts older than this were
written in the old Tcl system, and have the `.post` extension (although they're
really just markdown)

In other news, it's 2021! I'm not sure what's in store for me but here are a
few things sitting at the top of my head

* Finish shmd: if you look at the readme, I've really only implemented the
  first two feature bullet points, I wanted to start work on the [third][2], but
  got kind-of stuck on how I want to implement that stuff. Anyway I'm not
  classifying this as finished until I do that.

* Go to uni: I'm actually starting to dread this, timetable preferences are open
  at the time of writing (2021-01-26), and I feel very lost trying to work out
  what I need to do. I'm hoping that I'll make some friends at uni at least...

* Move out: I'd like to do this but moving out by myself seems difficult and I
  don't have any friends who are looking to move out right now.

* Work: I'd like to be able to work 3 days a week, although with uni it's
  looking like I might have to work on a weekend to actually be able to do that.

* Projects: these aren't all going to be programming-related but some of the
  programming projects that I have been thinking about lately are also listed

  + Gardening: I've already started doing a bit and it's pretty fun + a nice
    break from using the PC all the time.

  + Reading: I've set a goal for a book a month, so far I'm 0/1 months ;)

  + Plumbing: I'm getting interested in plan9 again, it feels like HCI stuff
    has really stagnated since the GUI, and the idea of treating any plain-text
    as a "hyperlink" is really interesting.

  + Games: I'd like to try and make some kind of a game, I'm not really sure
    what it would be about (or even what genre) but I've been getting really
    interested in different visual approaches in (indie) games lately.

  + Art/Animation: I'd like to make more pictures and maybe animated collages,
    a la Terry Gilliam. I've also been thinking about trying to do this with
    CSS, because I'm terrible at CSS.

  + SQL Diff: This might already exist, however in my (very brief) skim over
    existing solutions for version controlling SQL databases I couldn't find one
    which tracked the database in plaintext CREATE scripts, and then generated
    diffs in plaintext ALTER scripts. I think this would be a really neat (and
    transparent) way of tracking schema changes without needing some custom
    schema language (a few that I looked at were XML-based things).

$(sign)

[1]: https://github.com/dylan-lom/shmd
[2]: https://github.com/dylan-lom/shmd/issues/4