day 9: meta

tweaks to newlog.sh

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/decadv-2025.html b/decadv-2025.html
index 1928dd2..3107e39 100644
--- a/decadv-2025.html
+++ b/decadv-2025.html
@@ -39,6 +39,21 @@
 		</p>
 		</div>
 		-->
+		<h3 id="2025-12-09">2025-12-09</h3>
+		<div class="win">
+		<p>
+today is a little meta-day.
+i've added a little script to compose new log entries.
+see how i said no automation and here i am, writing ed scripts.
+oh, btw, i wrote this using ed(1). on workdays i can't use my home pc with a comfy acme.
+as i once said, ed(1) is the best text editor for a phone.
+no jokes. also it kinda forces you to think what you type and slow down a bit.
+every line entered could not be edited with backspace.
+once i wanted to write my own ed, but with more powerful regexes and with some features borrowed from sam(1),
+like, for example, ability to forget that line terminators exist and treat text as a one-dimensional array of bytes.
+but that's for another day maybe.
+		</p>
+		</div>
 		<h3 id="2025-12-08">2025-12-08</h3>
 		<div class="win">
 		<p>
diff --git a/newlog.sh b/newlog.sh
index 58cd1c2..8b24c64 100755
--- a/newlog.sh
+++ b/newlog.sh
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 _log_file="decadv-2025.html"
 
-day="$(printf '%02d' "$1")"
-[ -z "$1" ] && day="$(date +%d)"
+day="$1"
+[ -z "$1" ] && day="$(date +%d)" || day="$(printf '%02d' "$1")"
 
 echo "new log entry for day $day"