From 2098dc9968618561224fbc30394d39ab77b2dbe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Kent <smkent@smkent.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:39:30 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Convert `bell` to shell alias

---
 .dotfiles/bin/bell      | 7 -------
 .dotfiles/shell/aliases | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100755 .dotfiles/bin/bell

diff --git a/.dotfiles/bin/bell b/.dotfiles/bin/bell
deleted file mode 100755
index 568a987..0000000
--- a/.dotfiles/bin/bell
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# Prefix another command with this script to ring the terminal bell on command
-# completion
-"${@}"
-ret=${?}
-tput bel
-exit ${ret}
diff --git a/.dotfiles/shell/aliases b/.dotfiles/shell/aliases
index c4d9008..12278ef 100644
--- a/.dotfiles/shell/aliases
+++ b/.dotfiles/shell/aliases
@@ -259,6 +259,13 @@ if [ -x /usr/bin/notify-send ]; then
     }
 fi
 
+bell() {
+    "${@}"
+    ret=${?}
+    tput bel
+    return "${ret}"
+}
+
 png2jpg() {
     for i in "${@}"; do
         echo "${i}"

From 2b550bdf9add62f39535f5aac4d53aeffff9d916 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Kent <smkent@smkent.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:39:31 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Recreate `howlong`, `howold` as new combined `ago` Python
 tool

---
 .dotfiles/bin/ago     | 13 +++++++++++++
 .dotfiles/bin/howlong | 43 -------------------------------------------
 .dotfiles/bin/howold  | 14 --------------
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 .dotfiles/bin/ago
 delete mode 100755 .dotfiles/bin/howlong
 delete mode 100755 .dotfiles/bin/howold

diff --git a/.dotfiles/bin/ago b/.dotfiles/bin/ago
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..b9b2f02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dotfiles/bin/ago
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import datetime
+import sys
+import time
+
+if len(sys.argv) <= 1:
+    print(f"Usage: {sys.argv[0]} [:]value", file=sys.stderr)
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+v = sys.argv[1]
+seconds = int(v[1:]) if v[0] == ":" else int(time.time()) - int(v)
+print(datetime.timedelta(seconds=seconds))
diff --git a/.dotfiles/bin/howlong b/.dotfiles/bin/howlong
deleted file mode 100755
index b15a8f8..0000000
--- a/.dotfiles/bin/howlong
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-usage()
-{
-    (
-        echo "Usage: $(basename "${0}") [-p] <seconds count>"
-        echo "Convert number of seconds to human-readable time difference"
-    ) >&2
-    exit 1
-}
-
-opt_precision=
-while getopts "p:h" opt; do
-    case ${opt} in
-        p)      opt_precision="${OPTARG##*[!0-9]*}";;
-        h|\?)   usage;;
-        *)      echo "hmm ${1}";;
-    esac
-    shift "$((OPTIND-1))"
-done
-
-count="${1##*[!0-9]*}"
-[ -z "${count}" ] && usage
-
-div=
-str=
-mod=0
-for i in s m h d y; do
-    [ "${count}" -le 0 ] && break
-    case "${i}" in
-        y)      div=0;;
-        d)      div=365;;
-        h)      div=24;;
-        m|s)    div=60;;
-    esac
-    if [ "${div:-0}" -gt 0 ]; then
-        mod=$((count % div))
-        count=$((count / div))
-        str="${mod}${i} ${str}"
-    else
-        str="${count}${i} ${str}"
-    fi
-done
-echo "${str}" | cut -d' ' -f1-"${opt_precision:-100}"
diff --git a/.dotfiles/bin/howold b/.dotfiles/bin/howold
deleted file mode 100755
index 877e72d..0000000
--- a/.dotfiles/bin/howold
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-set -e
-args="${*}"
-if [ "${args##*[!0-9]*}" != "" ]; then
-    # Value is a number of seconds, parse as a unix timestamp
-    args="@${args}"
-fi
-ts=$(date --date="${args}" +%s)
-delta=$(($(date +%s) - ts))
-if [ "${delta}" -lt 0 ]; then
-    printf "future "
-    delta=$((0 - delta))
-fi
-howlong "${delta}"