21 points | by burntsushi 7 hours ago
8 comments
Same dude that made jiff. Love that library, so I'm assuming biff is built on top of jiff.
No, Biff informs the system whether you want to be notified when mail arrives during the current terminal session.
exactly. and chromium is a good looking space shooter with too few levels!
Yes I'm sure root is anxious to read all the mail in their local mailbox
Sending mail to root@<whatever> really did use to be a pretty reliable way of getting somebody useful's attention - the early-to-mid 90s equivalent of making a "Can someone from Google please unlock my account?" post on HN.
I am a happy user of dateutils [0], but I will try out Biff and see which one is more ergonomic.
[0]: https://www.fresse.org/dateutils/
% biff
2026 M05 28, Thu 17:27:46
Ahh, the month of M05
just between a04 and j06 yes
Same dude that made jiff. Love that library, so I'm assuming biff is built on top of jiff.
No, Biff informs the system whether you want to be notified when mail arrives during the current terminal session.
exactly. and chromium is a good looking space shooter with too few levels!
Yes I'm sure root is anxious to read all the mail in their local mailbox
Sending mail to root@<whatever> really did use to be a pretty reliable way of getting somebody useful's attention - the early-to-mid 90s equivalent of making a "Can someone from Google please unlock my account?" post on HN.
I am a happy user of dateutils [0], but I will try out Biff and see which one is more ergonomic.
[0]: https://www.fresse.org/dateutils/
% biff
2026 M05 28, Thu 17:27:46
Ahh, the month of M05
just between a04 and j06 yes