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I wrote a similar tool [1], although it's designed to let you gradually catch up on a backlog rather than write a full feed all at once. Right now it only works on Blogger and WordPress blogs, so I'll need to learn from their trick of pulling from Internet Archive.

[1] https://github.com/steadmon/blog-replay

For me it was a similar game, Stars![0] I got the shareware demo along with several other games on a floppy included with some computer magazine I randomly purchased at the mall. Got my brother and across-the-street neighbor hooked on it and we'd have days-long hot seat games during the summers. Later on I discovered the actual boxed version and bought it on the spot.

It is probably the oldest game I still play occasionally (it runs fine in Wine). In a weird coincidence, in the 201Xs my best friend and I were reminiscing about old games and it turned out he played it in his youth as well, so we fired up our respective copies and got several PBEM (well s/email/Google Drive) games going.

One of my favorite things about it is tweaking scripts to optimize the game economy each time I get another round of obsession with the game. It will dump detailed game data into TSV specifically for parsing by other tools.

If anyone is interested, you can still get legit software keys for it [1].

[0]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!>

[1]: <https://wiki.starsautohost.org/wiki/Get_Stars!>

Might as well plug my homebrewed solution for this: https://github.com/steadmon/blog-replay

Basically, it can scrape a WordPress or Blogger blog into a local DB and then replay the posts one-by-one into an RSS feed.

It's rough around the edges as it was a learning project and I haven't had much time to devote to cleaning it up. But I've been using it for a while and am happy with it.

I guess my advice is US-specific, so apologies if this doesn't apply. I'm assuming you have health insurance either through your employer or your partner's. If so, they most likely have a portal that will help you find nearby specialists who are on your insurance network. Take a look there and research a few therapists, psychologists, or psychiatrists. You might have to meet a few before you find one who clicks. The good news is that many (most?) are doing virtual consultations these days, so there's a lot less friction to having a meeting.

Hi, sorry to hear that you're feeling this way. It sounds extremely similar to what I went through when my daughter was born. The most important thing to keep in mind is that it gets better. The first four months after my daughter arrived were the most unhappy I've ever been in my life, but after that things started to become easier and parental responsibilities felt more fulfilling.

I'd strongly recommend seeing a therapist. You might also want to see if you can arrange your schedule to get more sleep; I know it might seem counterproductive when you already feel a lot of time pressure, but sleep deprivation is absolute torture and makes everything worse. Getting my daughter on a regular sleep schedule was the single biggest life-satisfaction improvement I've ever experienced.

It's been a while since I read it, but I remember enjoying Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade.