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Tue Dec 12 09:14:39 EST 2017 Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty. High of twenty-one today. Scattered snow. We got more snow last night than expected. The morning commute was slow. Work: - Start Patch Tuesday ticket Done. - Work on MECS Done. Good progress. Fifteen-minute walk at lunch. Snowy and windy. I'm glad I wore my boots this morning. Home: - Renew my personal Let's Encrypt certs Done. (I should probably automate renewal.) - Golang something A bit. Ten-minute walk after I got home. Silent night, and the crunch, crunch, crunch of footsteps compacting snow. Hmm. What about a personal presence service? Like, I want to see notification about various things on my current console, wherever that is. Bash PROMPT_COMMAND? Zsh precmd hook? We might want a local daemon running to *pull* notification from a central server. Are we tiptoeing into the "unified communication" territory? Faux Bat adjacent? Framing question: do you use `mail` to send internet email, or mostly for administrative alerts? Let's focus on the presence aspect for this little experiment (Tinker Bat?). - A thing on the client that sends a message to the server upon activity (e.g., Bash PROMPT_COMMAND). - When a client checks-in, the server sends it any queued messages. Lunch: coffee, gyro Dinner: carrots, chips

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