smudge

README

smudge

being a piece of textmode visual art for ritualistic computing

this program interleaves a set of text files together into an ASCII smudge stick and then burns them away character by character. the purpose of this program is to aid a user in meditating over their computer as a place and a space to exist within as opposed to a lifeless tool or content delivery mechanism.

installion

go install github.com/vilmibm/smudge

note this installs to ~/go/bin/smudge. you may want to put ~/go/bin on your $PATH.

usage

input files are listed ad naueseum as positional arguments; for example:

smudge file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt

at any time, press Enter to blow on the embers and re-ignite your stick.

quit whenever by pressing Esc or hitting ctrl+c

author

nate smith vilmibm@protonmail.com