occasion 0.3.0: now with more customizability!

check it out: https://github.com/itscrystalline/occasion/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Hello folks,

A couple days ago I've announced occasion, a little program i've been working on that prints a message if a certain configurable date pattern has matched. over the last couple days i've been working on improving the configurability of this utility.

whats changed:

custom date conditions, so you can now match for more complex date patterns, like for example to match for the last full week in October:[ `"DAY_OF_MONTH + 6 + (6 - DAY_IN_WEEK) == 31"`](https://github.com/itscrystalline/nixos-config/blob/0d393212e6f8ee70c80cad668af330047678d977/home/modules/cli.nix#L157)
custom shell conditions, unrelated to date
instead of just outputting a message, you can now configure it to show an output of another program (a shell by default)
you can now also match for the week in the year (week 1 - week 52/53, depending on the year)

what i want to do next

occasion is almost done, i still want to add native style support to the output for 0.4.0.

if you have any ideas, feel free to drop any in the issue tracker!

(0.2.0 was mostly just a platform support update, nothing really of note there)

Repo link



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