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<h1 id="pttk-and-stn">Pttk and STN</h1>
<p>By R. S. Doiel, started 2022-08-15 (updated: 2022-09-26, pdtk was
renamed pttk)</p>
<p>This log is a proof of concept in using <a
href="https://rsdoiel.github.io/stngo/docs/stn.html">simple timesheet
notation</a> as a source for very short blog posts. The tooling is
written in Golang (though eventually I hope to port it to Oberon-07).
The implementation combines two of my personal projects, <a
href="https://github.com/rsdoiel/stngo">stngo</a> and my experimental
writing tool <a href="https://github.com/rsdoiel/pttk">pttk</a>.
Updating the <strong>pttk</strong> cli I added a function to the
“blogit” action that will translates the simple timesheet notation (aka
STN) to a short blog post. My “short post” interest is a response to my
limited writing time. What follows is the STN markup. See the <a
href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rsdoiel/rsdoiel.github.io/main/blog/2022/08/15/golang-development.html">Markdown</a>
source for the unprocessed text.</p>
<p>2022-08-15</p>
<p>16:45 - 17:45; Golang; ptdk, stngo; Thinking through what a “post”
from an simple timesheet notation file should look like. One thing
occurred to me is that the entry’s “end” time is the publication date,
not the start time. That way the post is based on when it was completed
not when it was started. There is an edge case of where two entries end
at the same time on the same date. The calculated filename will collide.
In the <code>BlogSTN()</code> function I could check for potential file
collision and either issue a warning or append. Not sure of the right
action. Since I write sequentially this might not be a big problem, not
sure yet. Still playing with formatting before I add this type of post
to my blog. Still not settled on the title question but I need something
to link to from my blog’s homepage and that “title” is what I use for
other posts. Maybe I should just use a command line option to provide a
title?</p>
<p>2022-08-14</p>
<p>14:00 - 17:00; Golang; pdtk, stngo; Today I started an experiment. I
cleaned up stngo a little today, still need to implement a general
<code>Parse()</code> method that works on a <code>io.Reader</code>.
After a few initial false starts I realized the “right” place for
rendering simple timesheet notation as blog posts is in the the “blogit”
action of <a href="https://rsdoiel.github.io/pttk">pdtk</a>. I think
this form might be useful for both release notes in projects as well as
a series aggregated from single paragraphs. The limitation of the single
paragraph used in simple timesheet notation is intriguing. Proof of
concept is working in v0.0.3 of pdtk. Still sorting out if I need a
title and if so what it should be.</p>
<p>2022-08-12</p>
<p>16:00 - 16:30; Golang; stngo; A work slack exchange has perked my
interest in using <a
href="https://rsdoiel.github.io/stngo/docs/stn.html">simple timesheet
notation</a> for very short blog posts. This could be similar to Dave
Winer title less posts on <a href="http://scripting.com">scripting</a>.
How would this actually map? Should it be a tool in the <a
href="https://rsdoiel.githubio/stngo">stngo</a> project?</p>
<p>2022-09-26</p>
<p>6:30 - 7:30; Golang; pttk; renamed “pandoc toolkit” (pdtk) to “plain
text toolkit” (pttk) after adding gopher support to cli. This project is
less about writing tools specific to Pandoc and more about writing tools
oriented around plain text.</p>
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