[sputge]

Hello HN, I spent way too much time on this project.

First I tried (and failed) to get the printer working through CUPS, but learned a lot about ESC/POS commands and printers.

Once my Apple Shortcut worked, I wanted extras like:

- automatic dates on receipts

- a "checkbox" before each item

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Then I went down another rabbit hole: setting up a blog.

I obsessed over which static site generator and template to use, spent a week tweaking, then scrapped it all.

In the end I realized the content matters more, so I just left the template alone.