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+.PHONY: all gobuild gofmt
+
+all: timeline.db gobuild
+
+gobuild: gofmt
+	go build
+
+gofmt:
+	go fmt
+	
+timeline.db: timeline.sql
+	sqlite3 timeline.db < timeline.sql