I've been riding a #nerd #high since late June and here is one of the results.

https://codeberg.org/tnalpgge/cabrillo-el

While it is not directly responsible for helping me #slice and #dice our #hamradio contact logs from this past #FieldDay, it did eliminate the need for a bunch of #shell and #awk that I was using previously. Of course, by replacing some compact, proven scripts by a larger library of #Emacs #Lisp is more of an exercise in #purity than #practicality. Still, playing with #peg and formal-ish grammars was an interesting alternative to my traditional #regex approach to text processing.

It's not a thorough test suite, but it did help me catch two bugs this evening!

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

DICE, n. Small polka-dotted cubes of ivory, constructed like a lawyer to lie on any side, but commonly on the wrong one.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Dice,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1882-03-24)

More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/84592…

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