(₍🌱₎) ╢⚈⏖◕╟ ❮❝ 🧑🏽‍🌾 ❞❫ 🅻🅾🅶🅱🅾🅾🅺 ᗧ···ᗣ···ᗣ··· ▓. 10.04.26 · reread some old posts on https://textplain.blog/ in the morning. had a blast with https://textplain.blog/css-isnt-real + https://cssisntreal.com/ ... i mean as a letterpress printer, i should be offended by the thesis that "TEXT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE GIVEN STYLES", but it makes me laugh. ah, css and your endless bag of tricks. i am always between fancy and nada fancy, and in the digital world, fancy always seems to win me over for better or worse. in other news, i created a couple of cli scripts for my inbox / outbox ascii mail / postcards section. i have pasted them below if you want to adapt them. if you are a basher, go with env bash instead of env zsh :P. here is an image [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robotamerica/assets/refs/heads/main/term-outbound.png]. use by typing 'outbound "note here"' or 'inbound "note here"', ('\n' for new lines) and it will give you the output to copy and paste right there in the terminal 🙃. --- ``` #!/usr/bin/env zsh # inbound — wrap text in a special.fish inbound mail box # usage: inbound "your message here" # echo "your message" | inbound # inbound (interactive) WIDTH=47 wrap_line() { echo "$1" | fold -s -w $WIDTH } if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then raw="$*" else raw=$(cat) fi lines=() while IFS= read -r line; do if [[ -z "$line" ]]; then lines+=("") else while IFS= read -r wrapped; do lines+=("$wrapped") done <<< "$(wrap_line "$line")" fi done <<< "$raw" echo " __⎽-⎻⎺⎺⎻-⎽__⎽- -⎽__⎽-⎻⎺⎺⎻-⎽__⎽- -⎽__⎽-⎻⎺⎺⎻-⎽__⎽- -⎽__" echo " 𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆞𓆝 𓆟𓆞𓆝 " echo "" echo " ✉ INBOUND ─────────────────────────────────────────────" echo " ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓" echo " ┃ ┋" for line in "${lines[@]}"; do printf " ┃ %-49s┋\n" "$line" done echo " ┃ ┋" echo " ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛" echo " ──────────────────────────────── name / special.fish ──" ``` --- ``` #!/usr/bin/env zsh # outbound — wrap text in a special.fish outbound mail box # usage: outbound "your message here" # echo "your message" | outbound # outbound (interactive) WIDTH=47 wrap_line() { echo "$1" | fold -s -w $WIDTH } if [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; then raw="$*" else raw=$(cat) fi lines=() while IFS= read -r line; do if [[ -z "$line" ]]; then lines+=("") else while IFS= read -r wrapped; do lines+=("$wrapped") done <<< "$(wrap_line "$line")" fi done <<< "$raw" echo "" echo " ✉ OUTBOUND ────────────────────────────────────────────" echo " ┌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┐" echo " ╎ ╎" for line in "${lines[@]}"; do printf " ╎ %-49s╎\n" "$line" done echo " ╎ ╎" echo " └╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┘" echo " ──────────────────────────────── name / special.fish ──" ``` ▓. 07.04.26 · i hate when work overshadows everything else. but i am in that pattern while we are under-capacity and some of my team are on vacation. ouch. good news is that i have still had plenty of time for fun, just none for reflection. 🅿🅾🆂🆃🅲🅰🆁🅳🆂 📬📮🐦‍⬛ ✉ INBOUND ───────────────────────────────────────────── ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ cri.cri.cri ┋ ┃ ┋ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ✉ OUTBOUND ──────────────────────────────────────────── ┌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┐ ╎ nada ╎ ╎ ╎ └╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┘ ──────────────────────────────── at.leaf / special.fish ── 🅰🆁🅲🅷🅸🆅🅴 ᗤ·ᗣ····ᗣ···· my special fish logbook archive can be found @ https://robot-america.netlify.app/ i also have a media consumption logger here: https://robotamerica.github.io/media-log/ 🅲🅾🅻🅾🆄🆁🅼🅰🅿 🌈 SEASONAL PALETTE LOG ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ ── APRIL 2026 ─────────────────────────── oaxaca, garden ── COLOUR HEX NOTES ----------------------------------------------------------- bougainvillaea #C9357A impossible magenta noon sky #5BAED4 cloudless, hard blue spine grey #B8B4A8 cactus + limestone rock terracotta #C4622D adobe walls umbrella yellow #F2B830 midday shade mammillaria red #D42F3A small buds dry ground #A89070 the dusty dry season snake plant #4A6B4A deep green ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ── MARCH 2026 ─────────────────────────── xalapa, cityscape COLOUR HEX NOTES ----------------------------------------------------------- hibiscus #C94B72 bright flowers, always tropical leaf #4E9A3F xalapa forest window light blue sky #6DB3E8 oaxaca noon, cloudless sky mojito #A3C94A lime & caña orange wine #C47B42 an afternoon glass ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ── JANUARY 2026 ───────────────────────── xalapa, garden ── COLOUR HEX NOTES ----------------------------------------------------------- paper #F9F9F9 printmaking joy light-neutral / wash #CCCCCB nap time dark-neutral / core #372D2C sleepy muted red / rose #AE9AA1 dusty roads burnt orange #E37A3C negroni night olive green #879F33 solarpunky forest cobalt blue #346CF3 walking to the lakes slate blue / indigo #525872 hazy winter day ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────