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diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/001-make.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/001-make.7
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+.Dd September 17, 2018
+.Dt MAKE 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm Using Make
+.Nd writing less Makefile
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+Let's talk about
+.Xr make 1 .
+I think an important thing to know about
+.Xr make 1
+is that you don't need to write a
+.Pa Makefile
+to use it.
+There are default rules
+for C, C++ and probably Fortran.
+To build
+.Pa foo
+from
+.Pa foo.c ,
+just run:
+.
+.Pp
+.Dl make foo
+.
+.Pp
+The default rule for C files uses the
+.Ev CFLAGS
+variable,
+so you can set that in the environment
+to pass flags to the C compiler:
+.
+.Pp
+.Dl CFLAGS=-Wall make foo
+.
+.Pp
+It also uses
+.Ev LDLIBS
+for linking,
+so you can add libraries with:
+.
+.Pp
+.Dl LDLIBS=-lcurses make foo
+.
+.Pp
+Obviously writing this every time
+would become tedious,
+so it might be time to write a
+.Pa Makefile .
+But it really doesn't need much:
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+CFLAGS += -Wall -Wextra
+LDLIBS = -lcurses
+
+foo:
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+Assigning
+.Ev CFLAGS
+with
+.Ql +=
+preserves the system default
+or anything passed in the environment.
+Declaring
+.Pa foo
+as the first rule
+makes it the default when
+.Ql make
+is run without a target.
+Note that the rule doesn't need a definition;
+the default will still be used.
+.
+.Pp
+If
+.Pa foo
+is built from serveral source files,
+unfortunately a rule definition is required:
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+OBJS = foo.o bar.o baz.o
+
+foo: $(OBJS)
+	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(LDLIBS) -o $@
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+This rule uses
+.Ev LDFLAGS
+for passing linker flags,
+which is what the default rule does.
+The
+.Ql $@
+variable here expands to
+.Ql foo ,
+so this rule can be copied easily
+for other binary targets.
+.
+.Pp
+If some sources depend on a header file,
+they can be automatically rebuilt
+when the header changes
+by declaring a dependency rule:
+.
+.Pp
+.Dl foo.o bar.o: foo.h
+.
+.Pp
+Note that several files can appear
+either side of the
+.Ql ":" .
+.
+.Pp
+Lastly,
+it's always nice to add a
+.Cm clean
+target:
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+clean:
+	rm -f $(OBJS) foo
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+I hope this helps getting started with
+.Xr make 1
+without writing too much
+.Pa Makefile !
+.
+.Sh EXAMPLES
+The example
+.Pa Makefile
+in its entirety:
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+CFLAGS += -Wall -Wextra
+LDLIBS = -lcurses
+OBJS = foo.o bar.o baz.o
+
+foo: $(OBJS)
+	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(LDLIBS) -o $@
+
+foo.o bar.o: foo.h
+
+clean:
+	rm -f $(OBJS) foo
+.Ed
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Mt june@causal.agency
+.
+.Pp
+This document is produced from
+.Xr mdoc 7
+source available from
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/src/tree/www/text.causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/002-writing-mdoc.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/002-writing-mdoc.7
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+.Dd September 27, 2018
+.Dt WRITING-MDOC 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm Writing mdoc
+.Nd semantic markup
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+I recently learned how to write man pages
+so that I could document
+a bunch of little programs I've written.
+Modern man pages are written in
+.Xr mdoc 7 ,
+whose documentation is also available from
+.Lk http://mandoc.bsd.lv .
+.
+.Pp
+.Xr mdoc 7
+differs from many other markup languages
+by providing
+.Dq semantic markup
+rather than just
+.Dq physical markup.
+What this means is that
+the markup indicates what something is,
+not how to format it.
+For example,
+the
+.Ql \&Ar
+macro is used to indicate
+command-line arguments
+rather than one of the macros
+for bold, italic or underline.
+This frees each author of having to choose
+and enables consistent presentation
+across different man pages.
+.
+.Pp
+Another advantage of semantic markup
+is that information can be extracted from it.
+For example,
+.Xr makewhatis 8
+can easily extract the name and short description
+from each man page
+thanks to the
+.Ql \&Nm
+and
+.Ql \&Nd
+macros.
+I use the same information
+to generate an Atom feed for these documents,
+though in admittedly a much less robust way than
+.Xr mandoc 1 .
+.
+.Pp
+When it comes to actually writing
+.Xr mdoc 7 ,
+it can take some getting used to.
+The language is of
+.Xr roff 7
+lineage
+so its syntax is very particular.
+Macros cannot appear inline,
+but must start on new lines
+beginning with
+.Ql \&. .
+Sentences should likewise
+always start on a new line.
+Since I'm in the habit of writing with
+semantic line breaks,
+I actually find these requirements
+fit in well.
+.
+.Pp
+The more frustrating syntax limitation to me
+is the rule against empty lines.
+Without them,
+it can be quite difficult to edit a lengthy document.
+Thankfully,
+lines with only a
+.Ql \&.
+on them are allowed,
+but this still causes visual noise.
+To alleviate that,
+I have a
+.Xr vim 1
+syntax file for
+.Xr mdoc 7
+which conceals the lone dots:
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+if exists("b:current_syntax")
+	finish
+endif
+
+runtime! syntax/nroff.vim
+unlet! b:current_syntax
+
+setlocal sections+=ShSs
+syntax match mdocBlank /^\\.$/ conceal
+setlocal conceallevel=2
+
+let b:current_syntax = "mdoc"
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+It also adds the
+.Xr mdoc 7
+section header and subsection header macros to the
+.Cm sections
+option to make
+.Xr vim 1 Ap s
+.Ic {
+and
+.Ic }
+motions
+aware of them.
+.
+.Pp
+With that,
+I've found writing man pages pleasant and rewarding.
+I've started writing other documents with
+.Xr mdoc 7
+as well,
+as you can see here.
+.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Lk http://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2012/one-sentence-per-line/ "Semantic Linefeeds"
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Mt june@causal.agency
+.
+.Pp
+This document is produced from
+.Xr mdoc 7
+source available from
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/src/tree/www/text.causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/003-pleasant-c.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/003-pleasant-c.7
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+.Dd September 30, 2018
+.Dt PLEASANT-C 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm Pleasant C
+.Nd it's good, actually
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+I've been writing a lot of C lately
+and actually find it very pleasant.
+I want to talk about some of its ergonomic features.
+These are C99 features unless otherwise noted.
+.
+.Ss Initializer syntax
+Struct and union initializer syntax
+is well generalized.
+Designators can be chained,
+making initializing nested structs easy,
+and all uninitialized fields are zeroed.
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+struct {
+	struct pollfd fds[2];
+} loop = {
+	.fds[0].fd = STDIN_FILENO,
+	.fds[1].fd = STDOUT_FILENO,
+	.fds[0].events = POLLIN,
+	.fds[1].events = POLLOUT,
+};
+.Ed
+.
+.Ss Variable-length arrays
+VLAs can be multi-dimensional,
+which can avoid manual stride multiplications
+needed to index a flat
+.Xr malloc 3 Ap d
+array.
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+uint8_t glyphs[len][height][width];
+fread(glyphs, height * width, len, stdin);
+.Ed
+.
+.Ss Incomplete array types
+The last field of a struct can be an
+.Dq incomplete
+array type,
+which means it doesn't have a length.
+A variable amount of space for the struct can be
+.Xr malloc 3 Ap d ,
+or the struct can be used as
+a sort of pointer with fields.
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+struct Line {
+	enum Filter type;
+	uint8_t data[];
+} *line = &png.data[1 + lineSize()];
+.Ed
+.
+.Ss Anonymous struct and union fields (C11)
+Members of structs or unions
+which are themselves structs or unions
+can be unnamed.
+In that case,
+each of the inner fields
+is treated as a member of the outer struct or union.
+This makes working with tagged unions nicer.
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+struct Message {
+	enum { Foo, Bar } type;
+	union {
+		uint8_t foo;
+		uint32_t bar;
+	};
+} msg = { .type = Foo, .foo = 0xFF };
+.Ed
+.
+.Ss Static assert (C11)
+Assertions can be made at compile time.
+Most useful for checking sizes of structs.
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+static_assert(13 == sizeof(struct PNGHeader), "PNG IHDR size");
+.Ed
+.
+.Ss Leading-break switch
+This one is just an odd style choice
+I came across that C happens to allow.
+To prevent accidental fall-through
+in switch statements,
+you can put breaks before the case labels.
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+while (0 < (opt = getopt(argc, argv, "h:w:"))) {
+	switch (opt) {
+		break; case 'h': height = optarg;
+		break; case 'w': width = optarg;
+		break; default:  return EX_USAGE;
+	}
+}
+.Ed
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Mt june@causal.agency
+.
+.Pp
+This document is produced from
+.Xr mdoc 7
+source available from
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/src/tree/www/text.causal.agency
+.
+.Sh CAVEATS
+This isn't meant to be advice.
+It's just how I like to write C,
+and I don't
+.Dq ship
+software in C.
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/004-uloc.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/004-uloc.7
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+.Dd December 14, 2018
+.Dt ULOC 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm ULOC
+.Nd unique lines of code
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+There are many tools available
+which measure SLOC: source lines of code.
+These tools are strangely complex
+for what they intend to do,
+which is to estimate the relative sizes of projects.
+They perform some amount of parsing
+in order to discount comments in various languages,
+and for reasons unknown each format their ouput
+in some oddly encumbered way.
+.
+.Pp
+I propose a much simpler method
+of estimating relative sizes of projects:
+unique lines of code.
+ULOC can be calculated with standard tools as follows:
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+sort -u *.h *.c | wc -l
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+In my opinion,
+the number this produces
+should be a better estimate of
+the complexity of a project.
+Compared to SLOC,
+not only are blank lines discounted,
+but so are close-brace lines
+and other repetitive code
+such as common includes.
+On the other hand,
+ULOC counts comments,
+which require just as much maintenance
+as the code around them does,
+while avoiding inflating the result
+with license headers which appear in every file,
+for example.
+.
+.Pp
+It can also be amusing
+to read all of your code sorted alphabetically.
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Mt june@causal.agency
+.
+.Pp
+This document is produced from
+.Xr mdoc 7
+source available from
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/src/tree/www/text.causal.agency
+.
+.Sh CAVEATS
+Estimates such as these
+should not be used for decision making
+as if they were data.
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/005-testing-c.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/005-testing-c.7
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+.Dd December 21, 2018
+.Dt TESTING-C 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm Testing C
+.Nd a simple unit testing setup
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+This is a simple approach
+to unit testing in C
+that I've used in a couple projects.
+At the bottom of a C file
+with some code I want to test,
+I add:
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+#ifdef TEST
+#include <assert.h>
+
+int main(void) {
+	assert(...);
+	assert(...);
+}
+
+#endif
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+This file normally produces a
+.Pa .o
+to be linked into the main binary.
+For testing,
+I produce separate binaries
+and run them with
+.Xr make 1 :
+.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+TESTS = foo.t bar.t
+
+\&.SUFFIXES: .t
+
+\&.c.t:
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -DTEST $(LDFLAGS) $< $(LDLIBS) -o $@
+
+test: $(TESTS)
+	set -e; $(TESTS:%=./%;)
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+Note that the test binaries
+aren't linked with the rest of the code,
+so there is potential for simple stubbing or mocking.
+.
+.Pp
+To get the best output
+from C's simple
+.Xr assert 3 ,
+it's best to assert the result
+of a helper function
+which takes the expected output
+and the test input,
+rather than calling
+.Xr assert 3
+inside the helper function.
+This way,
+the message printed by the assert failure
+contains a useful line number
+and the expected output
+rather than just variable names.
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Mt june@causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/006-some-libs.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/006-some-libs.7
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+.Dd December 11, 2019
+.Dt SOME-LIBS 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm Some Libraries
+.Nd good ones
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+This is a little list of C libraries
+I've had good experiences using.
+.
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl lcurl
+The library behind the
+.Xr curl 1
+command.
+It downloads or uploads things on the internet
+through a number of protocols,
+not just HTTP.
+It has an easy-to-use library API,
+appropriately named
+.Xr libcurl-easy 3 .
+I've used it to implement a
+.Lk https://causal.agency/bin/title.html "page title fetcher" .
+.
+.It Fl lcurses
+Okay so this one really isn't great.
+Its interfaces can seem archaic
+and its documentation is often poor.
+However, it gets the job done
+and is commonly available pretty much everywhere.
+Interesting to note that
+.Nx
+uses its own implementation of curses
+that is not GNU ncurses,
+unlike
+.Fx .
+.
+.It Fl ledit
+This is a BSD line editing library,
+similar to GNU readline.
+It supports right-aligned prompts,
+which I prefer for variable-length
+information in shells.
+.
+.It Fl lkcgi
+A CGI and FastCGI library
+for web applications in C.
+Don't worry,
+it isolates HTTP parsing and input validation
+from application logic
+in sandboxed processes.
+I think it's an excellent example
+of how to design an API for C.
+I used it to implement the
+.Lk https://ascii.town/explore.html "torus web viewer" .
+.
+.It Fl lsqlite3
+An embedded relational database engine.
+It's amazing what you can do with this,
+and it's super easy to use!
+My one gripe with it is that the library and SQL documentation
+are not available as
+.Xr man 1
+pages.
+I'm currently working on a project using SQLite,
+but it hasn't gotten very far yet.
+.
+.It Fl ltls
+This is a new library in LibreSSL
+which provides a much simpler interface for TLS sockets
+compared to
+.Fl lssl .
+It's much more like what you'd expect
+from other TLS socket wrappers,
+with calls like
+.Xr tls_connect 3 ,
+.Xr tls_read 3
+and
+.Xr tls_write 3 .
+I've used this for IRC clients, bouncers and bots.
+.
+.It Fl lz
+An implementation of the DEFLATE compression algorithm
+and gzip format.
+It's all documented in comments in
+.In zlib.h ,
+which isn't bad,
+but for my own use I copied the docs into
+.Lk https://code.causal.agency/june/zlib-man-pages "manual pages" .
+I've used this for decoding and encoding PNG images.
+.El
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An June Bug Aq Mt june@causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/007-cgit-setup.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/007-cgit-setup.7
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+.Dd December 15, 2019
+.Dt CGIT-SETUP 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm cgit setup
+.Nd configuration notes
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+I just set up cgit on
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency
+to replace an instance of gitea.
+After 30 days of uptime,
+gitea had accumulated over 11 hours of CPU time
+and was using hundreds of megabytes of memory.
+cgit is much more lightweight
+and much more in line with my aesthetic.
+I'm documenting how I set it up here
+mostly to remind myself in the future.
+.
+.Ss slowcgi
+cgit is CGI software,
+but
+.Xr nginx 8
+only supports FastCGI.
+I used
+.Xr slowcgi 8
+as a compatibility layer
+by adding the following to
+.Pa /etc/rc.conf :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+slowcgi_enable="YES"
+slowcgi_flags="-p / -s /var/run/slowcgi.sock"
+.Ed
+.
+.Ss nginx
+I added the following in a new
+.Cm server
+block to
+.Pa /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+root /usr/local/www/cgit;
+location / {
+	try_files $uri @cgit;
+}
+location @cgit {
+	fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/slowcgi.sock;
+	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/cgit.cgi;
+	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /;
+	fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $uri;
+	fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
+	fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
+	fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
+	fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
+	fastcgi_param HTTPS $https if_not_empty;
+	fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
+	fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
+}
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+The
+.Cm try_files
+directive causes
+.Xr nginx 8
+to first try to serve static files from
+.Pa /usr/local/www/cgit
+before passing anything else on to FastCGI.
+.
+.Pp
+The
+.Va SCRIPT_FILENAME
+parameter tells
+.Xr slowcgi 8
+the path of the CGI binary to run.
+Setting
+.Va SCRIPT_NAME
+to
+.Pa /
+tells cgit its root URL
+and avoids it using query strings for everything.
+.
+.Ss cgit
+cgit doesn't provide any configuration to start from,
+so you have to just read
+.Xr cgitrc 5 .
+I added the following to
+.Pa /usr/local/etc/cgitrc :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+cache-size=1024
+clone-url=https://$HTTP_HOST/$CGIT_REPO_URL
+snapshots=tar.gz zip
+remove-suffix=1
+enable-git-config=1
+scan-path=/home/june/pub
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+The
+.Cm cache-size
+option enables caching,
+which by default is stored in
+.Pa /var/cache/cgit ,
+so I made sure that directory exists
+and is writable by the
+.Sy www
+user.
+The
+.Cm clone-url
+option sets the clone URL to advertise.
+cgit will automatically serve git over HTTP.
+The
+.Cm snapshots
+option makes tarballs available for tags and commits.
+.
+.Pp
+The
+.Cm scan-path
+option causes cgit to scan the given path
+for git repositories.
+I'm putting mine in
+.Pa ~/pub .
+The
+.Cm remove-suffix
+option causes cgit to remove the
+.Pa .git
+suffix from the URLs it uses
+for the repositories it finds,
+so that
+.Pa ~/pub/pounce.git
+is served at
+.Pa /pounce .
+The
+.Cm enable-git-config
+option allows controlling some cgit options
+from the
+.Xr git-config 1
+of each repository.
+See
+.Sx git
+below.
+.
+.Pp
+I also set up a filter to render
+.Xr mdoc 7
+files
+and do syntax highlighting
+by adding the following to
+.Pa cgitrc :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+readme=:README.7
+readme=:README
+about-filter=/usr/local/libexec/cgit-filter
+source-filter=/usr/local/libexec/cgit-filter
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+The
+.Cm readme
+options tell cgit which files to look for
+to render the
+.Dq about
+page.
+The colon prefix causes it to look for them
+in the git tree.
+The
+.Pa /usr/local/libexec/cgit-filter
+script contains the following:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+#!/bin/sh
+case "$1" in
+	(*.[1-9])
+		/usr/bin/mandoc -T utf8 | /usr/local/libexec/ttpre
+		;;
+	(*)
+		exec /usr/local/libexec/hi -t -n "$1" -f html -o anchor
+		;;
+esac
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+Filter scripts are run with the filename as their first argument
+and the contents of the file on standard input.
+The
+.Xr ttpre 1
+command is my own utility to convert
+.Xr man 1
+output to HTML.
+The
+.Xr hi 1
+command is my own
+.Lk https://causal.agency/bin/hi.html "syntax highlighter" .
+.
+.Ss git
+I create my repositories in
+.Pa ~/pub
+with
+.Ql git init --bare
+and use
+.Pa git.causal.agency:pub/example.git
+locally as the remote.
+Descriptions are set by editing the
+.Pa description
+file in each repository.
+The section and homepage can be set with
+.Xr git-config 1
+through the keys
+.Cm cgit.section
+and
+.Cm cgit.homepage ,
+respectively,
+thanks to the
+.Cm enable-git-config
+option above.
+.
+.Ss Redirects
+I added the following to the
+.Cm server
+block that used to serve gitea in
+.Pa nginx.conf :
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+location ~* /june/([^.]+)[.]git(.*) {
+	return 301 https://git.causal.agency/$1$2?$query_string;
+}
+location ~* /june/([^/]+) {
+	return 301 https://git.causal.agency/$1;
+}
+location / {
+	return 301 https://git.causal.agency;
+}
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+This redirects any links to my gitea repos
+to the corresponding repo in cgit.
+The first
+.Sy location
+block also redirects gitea HTTP clone URLs to cgit
+so that
+.Xr git-pull 1
+continues to work on existing clones.
+.
+.Ss Update: fast HTTPS clones
+Someone pointed out that cloning my repos
+over HTTPS was incredibly slow,
+and this is because cgit only implements the
+.Dq dumb
+HTTP git transport.
+To speed up cloning,
+I send the URLs used by the
+.Dq smart
+HTTP transport to
+.Xr git-http-backend 1
+instead:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+location ~ /.+/(info/refs|git-upload-pack) {
+	fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/slowcgi.sock;
+	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /usr/local/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend;
+	fastcgi_param GIT_HTTP_EXPORT_ALL 1;
+	fastcgi_param GIT_PROJECT_ROOT /home/june/pub;
+	include fastcgi_params;
+}
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+I factored out the FastCGI parameters
+I'm using with cgit
+to be included here as well.
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An June Bug Aq Mt june@causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/008-how-irc.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/008-how-irc.7
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+.Dd March  8, 2020
+.Dt HOW-IRC 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm How I Relay Chat
+.Nd in code
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+I've been writing a lot of IRC software lately
+.Pq Sx SEE ALSO ,
+and developed some nice code patterns
+that I've been reusing.
+Here they are.
+.
+.Ss Parsing
+I use fixed size buffers almost everywhere,
+so it's necessary to know IRC's size limits.
+A traditional IRC message is a maximum of 512 bytes,
+but the IRCv3 message-tags spec adds
+(unreasonably, in my opinion)
+8191 bytes for tags.
+IRC messages also have a maximum of 15 command parameters.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+enum { MessageCap = 8191 + 512 };
+enum { ParamCap = 15 };
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+If I'm using tags,
+I'll use X macros
+to declare the set I care about.
+X macros are a way of maintaining parallel arrays,
+or in this case an enum and an array.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+#define ENUM_TAG \e
+	X("msgid", TagMsgid) \e
+	X("time", TagTime)
+
+enum Tag {
+#define X(name, id) id,
+	ENUM_TAG
+#undef X
+	TagCap,
+};
+
+static const char *TagNames[TagCap] = {
+#define X(name, id) [id] = name,
+	ENUM_TAG
+#undef X
+};
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+The TagNames array is used by the parsing function
+to assign tag values into the message structure,
+which looks like this:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+struct Message {
+	char *tags[TagCap];
+	char *nick;
+	char *user;
+	char *host;
+	char *cmd;
+	char *params[ParamCap];
+};
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+I'm a fan of using
+.Xr strsep 3
+for simple parsing.
+Although it modifies its input
+(replacing delimiters with NUL terminators),
+since the raw message is in a static buffer,
+it is ideal for so-called zero-copy parsing.
+I'm not going to include the whole parsing function here,
+but I will at least include the part that many get wrong,
+which is dealing with the colon-prefixed trailing parameter:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+msg.cmd = strsep(&line, " ");
+for (int i = 0; line && i < ParamCap; ++i) {
+	if (line[0] == ':') {
+		msg.params[i] = &line[1];
+		break;
+	}
+	msg.params[i] = strsep(&line, " ");
+}
+.Ed
+.
+.Ss Handling
+To handle IRC commands and replies
+I add handler functions to a big array.
+I usually have some form of helper as well
+to check the number of expected parameters.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+typedef void HandlerFn(struct Message *msg);
+
+static const struct Handler {
+	const char *cmd;
+	HandlerFn *fn;
+} Handlers[] = {
+	{ "001", handleReplyWelcome },
+	{ "PING", handlePing },
+	{ "PRIVMSG", handlePrivmsg },
+};
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+Since I keep these arrays sorted anyway,
+I started using the standard
+.Xr bsearch 3
+function,
+but a basic for loop probably works just as well.
+I do wish I could compile-time assert
+that the array really is sorted, though.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+static int compar(const void *cmd, const void *_handler) {
+	const struct Handler *handler = _handler;
+	return strcmp(cmd, handler->cmd);
+}
+
+void handle(struct Message msg) {
+	if (!msg.cmd) return;
+	const struct Handler *handler = bsearch(
+		msg.cmd,
+		Handlers, ARRAY_LEN(Handlers),
+		sizeof(*handler), compar
+	);
+	if (handler) handler->fn(&msg);
+}
+.Ed
+.
+.Ss Capabilities
+For IRCv3 capabilties
+I use X macros again,
+this time with another handy macro
+for declaring bit flag enums.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+#define BIT(x) x##Bit, x = 1 << x##Bit, x##Bit_ = x##Bit
+
+#define ENUM_CAP \e
+	X("message-tags", CapMessageTags) \e
+	X("sasl", CapSASL) \e
+	X("server-time", CapServerTime)
+
+enum Cap {
+#define X(name, id) BIT(id),
+	ENUM_CAP
+#undef X
+};
+
+static const char *CapNames[] = {
+#define X(name, id) [id##Bit] = name,
+	ENUM_CAP
+#undef X
+};
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn BIT
+macro declares, for example,
+.Dv CapSASL
+as the bit flag and
+.Dv CapSASLBit
+as the corresponding index.
+The
+.Vt "enum Cap"
+is used as a set,
+for example checking if SASL is enabled with
+.Ql caps & CapSASL .
+.
+.Pp
+These patterns are serving my IRC software well,
+and my IRC projects are serving me well.
+It is immensely satisfying
+to be (near) constantly using software
+that I wrote myself and am happy with,
+regardless of how niche it may be.
+.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Bl -item -compact
+.It
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/pounce/about "IRC bouncer"
+.It
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/litterbox/about "IRC logger"
+.It
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/catgirl/about "IRC client"
+.El
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An June Bug Aq Mt june@causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/009-casual-update.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/009-casual-update.7
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+.Dd May  6, 2020
+.Dt CASUAL-UPDATE 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm casual update
+.Nd software developments
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+I've been figuring out more of IMAP
+and Internet Messages in general
+while working on a new project
+so I've revisited some older ones.
+I've copied my somewhat more proper
+IMAP parsing code into them,
+so they should be more robust.
+.
+.Pp
+.Xr imbox 1
+is my tool to export messages
+in mboxrd format directly from IMAP.
+It's mostly for applying patches sent by email
+without having any kind of local mail setup.
+For that,
+it includes the
+.Xr git-fetch-email 1
+wrapper which works very similarly to
+.Xr git-send-email 1 .
+I learned by reading the source of
+.Xr git-subtree 1
+that
+.Xr git-rev-parse 1
+can be used by shell scripts
+to parse long options,
+so I added those.
+I also added the
+.Fl Fl apply
+flag to automatically pipe to
+.Xr git-am 1
+with the right flags for mboxrd.
+.
+.Pp
+.Xr notemap 1
+is a tool for mirroring text files
+to an IMAP Notes mailbox,
+which is used by FastMail's web UI
+and the macOS/iOS Notes app.
+Its original parsing code
+was particularly ad-hoc.
+Since I've now learned
+how UTF-8 headers are encoded,
+I updated it to properly encode
+the file name in the Subject line.
+.
+.Pp
+I also got distracted by
+a conversation about UNIX-domain sockets
+where I was comparing the macOS and FreeBSD
+.Xr unix 4
+pages and the Linux
+.Xr unix 7
+page.
+This lead me to make
+.Xr exman 1 ,
+a tool to locally install and read
+manual pages for Linux, POSIX,
+.Fx ,
+.Nx
+and
+.Ox .
+I've already gotten quite a bit of use out of it.
+.
+.Pp
+In yet another IRC distraction,
+I was talking about some further plans for my IRC software,
+and realized it might be time to write
+my future projects list down.
+I opened a
+.Pa .plan
+file,
+immediately wondered how anyone can write plain text,
+then switched to a
+.Pa plan.7
+file.
+There's nothing I won't use
+.Xr mdoc 7
+for.
+After a little setup,
+I can now be fingered,
+and make jokes about this silly little protocol
+from the days of old.
+.Xr finger 1 Ap s
+default output fills me with joy:
+.Bd -unfilled -offset indent
+No Mail.
+No Plan.
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+And speaking of IRC and plans,
+I've been meaning to tag
+.Xr catgirl 1
+version 1.0 for a while now.
+I've been using it as my main client
+and my commits to it have really slowed down.
+When I do tag it,
+I'm planning on writing another post
+about my whole
+.Dq suite
+of IRC software
+and how the parts work together.
+Watch this space.
+.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Bl -item -compact
+.It
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/imbox "imbox"
+.It
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/notemap "notemap"
+.It
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/exman "exman"
+.It
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/catgirl "catgirl"
+.El
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An June Bug Aq Mt june@causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/010-irc-suite.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/010-irc-suite.7
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+.Dd June 19, 2020
+.Dt IRC-SUITE 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm IRC suite
+.Nd my own IRC software
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+Over the past months
+.Po
+eight of them, according to
+.Xr git-log 1
+.Pc
+I developed a new
+.Dq suite
+of IRC software
+that I now use full-time,
+consisting of a bouncer,
+a new logging and search solution,
+and a terminal client.
+These new programs share some characteristics:
+they are all TLS-only
+and use the libtls API from LibreSSL,
+they can all be entirely configured from the command line
+or with equivalent configuration files,
+they are all designed as
+a one process to one IRC connection mapping,
+and they all take advantage of IRCv3 features.
+.
+.Pp
+For context,
+I was previously running
+the znc IRC bouncer
+and using the Textual IRC client
+with its plain text logs.
+I also continue to use
+the Palaver IRC client for iOS.
+.
+.Ss Background
+A bouncer is a piece of server software
+that stays connected to IRC at all times
+and acts as a relay
+between your client and the IRC server.
+When the client is disconnected,
+the bouncer buffers incoming messages
+to send to the client when it reconnects.
+.
+.Pp
+Aside from this,
+bouncers have another advantage:
+client multiplexing.
+Several clients,
+for instance on different computers
+or a phone,
+should be able to connect to the same bouncer,
+and send and receive messages under the same nick.
+Unfortunately,
+znc does not handle this use-case well at all.
+Out of the box it offers two options:
+either any client connection totally clears the buffer,
+causing other clients to miss chat history;
+or the buffer is never cleared,
+causing every client connection
+to be repeatedly spammed with redundant history.
+There is also a znc wiki page
+that suggests one way to solve this issue
+is to connect znc to itself multiple times over.
+Yikes.
+.
+.Ss pounce
+My dissatisfaction with
+connecting multiple clients to znc
+directly motivated me to start working
+on a new multi-client-focused IRC bouncer.
+The result is
+.Xr pounce 1 ,
+based on a rather straightforward
+single-producer (the IRC server)
+multiple-consumer (each IRC client)
+ring buffer.
+Each client has its own
+independent position in the buffer
+so can properly be brought up to date
+whenever it connects.
+.
+.Pp
+Additionally,
+by assuming support for the IRCv3
+.Sy server-time
+extension,
+all IRC events can be accurately
+relayed to clients at any time,
+and the internals of
+.Xr pounce 1
+can be kept very simple.
+In fact,
+it completely avoids parsing most IRC messages,
+simply pushing them into the buffer
+with an associated timestamp.
+.
+.Pp
+The usernames sent by clients during registration
+are used as opaque identifiers for buffer consumers.
+This was chosen since most clients
+can be configured to send an arbitrary username,
+and those that don't often default
+to the name of the client itself,
+making it an appropriate identifier.
+.
+.Pp
+Later,
+I added a way for clients
+to be informed of their own buffer positions
+using a vendor-specific IRCv3 capability.
+This means a client
+can save the position
+of the last message it actually received,
+and request to set its position
+when it reconnects,
+ensuring no messages are lost
+to network issues
+or software crashes.
+.
+.Ss calico
+Due to the simple design of mapping
+one process to one IRC (server) connection,
+it is necessary to run several instances of
+.Xr pounce 1 .
+Initially I simply used different ports for each,
+but as I connected to more networks
+and even ran some instances for friends,
+it became less feasible.
+.
+.Pp
+The solution I came up with
+was to dispatch incoming connections
+using Server Name Indication, or SNI.
+This way,
+multiple domains pointing to the same host
+could be used with only one port
+to connect to different instances of
+.Xr pounce 1 .
+For example,
+I use a
+.Li *.irc.causal.agency
+wildcard DNS entry
+and a subdomain for each IRC network,
+all on port 6697.
+.
+.Pp
+The
+.Xr calico 1
+daemon included with pounce
+accomplishes this dispatch
+using the
+.Dv MSG_PEEK
+flag of
+.Xr recvmsg(2)
+on incoming connections.
+Since SNI is immediately sent by TLS clients
+as part of the ClientHello message in clear-text,
+it can be processed
+without doing any actual TLS.
+The connection itself is then
+sent to the corresponding
+.Xr pounce 1
+instance
+over UNIX-domain socket,
+which handles TLS as normal.
+This means that
+.Xr calico 1
+and
+.Xr pounce 1
+operate entirely independently of each other.
+.
+.Ss litterbox
+Based on the multiple-consumer ring buffer design,
+I realized it would be easy
+to implement additional functionality
+as independent purpose-built clients
+which connect to
+.Xr pounce 1
+alongside regular clients.
+This could allow dedicated OTR or DCC software
+to operate in parallel with a basic client,
+or for more passive software
+to provide notifications
+or dedicated logging.
+.
+.Pp
+For the latter,
+I wanted to do better than
+plain text log files.
+.Xr grep 1
+over files works fine,
+but search could be faster and smarter,
+and the text format is
+more lossy and less structured
+than I'd like it to be.
+Conveniently,
+SQLite provides an extension
+(actually two)
+for full-text search.
+.
+.Pp
+The litterbox project
+is my dedicated logging solution
+using SQLite FTS5.
+It consists of three tools:
+the
+.Xr litterbox 1
+daemon itself which connects to pounce
+and logs messages to SQLite,
+the
+.Xr scoop 1
+command line query tool,
+and the
+.Xr unscoop 1
+plain text import tool.
+The
+.Xr scoop 1
+tool constructs SQL queries
+and formats the results for viewing,
+with coloured nicks
+and piped to a pager
+by default.
+.
+.Pp
+The
+.Xr litterbox 1
+daemon
+can also provide a simple
+.Dq online
+.Pq over IRC
+search query interface
+to other connected clients.
+The simplest way to allow different
+.Xr pounce 1
+clients to talk to each other
+was to route private messages to self
+internally without sending them to the IRC server.
+So from any client
+I can simply message myself
+a full-text search query
+and
+.Xr litterbox 1
+responds with the results.
+.
+.Pp
+Along with routing self-messages,
+.Xr pounce 1
+also provides a vendor-specific IRCv3 capability
+for passive clients such as
+.Xr litterbox 1
+to indicate that they should not influence
+the automatic away status,
+which is normally only set
+when no clients are connected.
+.
+.Pp
+An advantage of this architecture
+of dedicated clients
+rather than bouncer modules
+is that they need not run
+on the same host.
+I run my bouncers on a VPS,
+but I'd rather not store my private logs there,
+so
+.Xr litterbox 1
+runs instead on a Raspberry Pi
+in my apartment.
+Also,
+since it is essentially
+just a regular IRC bot,
+it could be used independently
+for keeping public logs for a channel.
+.
+.Ss catgirl
+There's not really that much to say
+about the client,
+.Xr catgirl 1 .
+Of the three projects
+it contains the most code
+but is also the least interesting,
+in my opinion.
+It just does what I want a client to do,
+and gets the details right.
+.
+.Pp
+Tab complete is ordered by most recently seen or used,
+and completing several nicks
+inserts commas between them
+as well as the colon following the final nick.
+In the input line,
+the prompt is updated
+to reflect whether the input
+will be interpreted as a command or as a message.
+Messages are automatically scanned for URLs,
+which can be opened or copied with commands
+specifying the nick or a substring of the URL.
+.
+.Pp
+Scrolling in a window creates a split view,
+keeping the latest messages visible.
+Nick colours are based instead on usernames,
+keeping them more stable across renames,
+and mentions in messages are coloured
+to make the conversation easier to follow.
+The visibility of ignored messages
+can be toggled at any time.
+Channels can be muted
+so their activity is hidden
+from the status line
+unless you are pinged.
+.
+.Pp
+.Xr catgirl 1
+is configured entirely on the command line
+or in equivalent simple configuration files.
+There's no dynamic manipulation of state
+using complex
+.Ql /
+commands like in some other clients.
+.
+.Pp
+The major caveat is that
+.Xr catgirl 1
+connects to only one network at a time.
+This keeps the configuration, the interface
+and the code much simpler.
+.Xr tmux 1 ,
+.Xr screen 1
+or a tabbed terminal emulator
+are good options to run several instances.
+.
+.Pp
+If you're interested in giving
+.Xr catgirl 1
+a quick (and necessarily limited) try,
+you can
+.Li ssh chat@ascii.town .
+.
+.Ss Future
+I think I'm done with IRC software for now.
+As mentioned above,
+there are a few more pieces
+that could fit in to this setup,
+but I don't really want or need them right now.
+One thing I definitely want to try
+at some point
+is adding a litterbox component
+to index the contents of URLs
+to make finding previously shared links easier.
+.
+.Pp
+If you try any of this software
+and have feedback,
+let me know in
+.Li #ascii.town
+on freenode
+or by email.
+And of course,
+patches are always welcome.
+.
+.Ss Update: scooper
+Somehow I had the motivation
+to create a web interface for litterbox:
+.Xr scooper 1 .
+It can be used either as CGI
+or as a FastCGI worker,
+and I used the excellent
+.Xr kcgi 3
+library for it.
+.
+.Pp
+The main advantage of this interface
+is that you can click on a search result
+to be brought to its context in the log viewer.
+I also added an option to
+.Xr litterbox 1
+to provide a corresponding scooper link
+in response to its query interface.
+.
+.Pp
+A small demo of scooper is hosted at
+.Aq Lk "https://causal.agency/scooper/" .
+It publicly logs the
+.Li #litterbox
+channel on freenode.
+.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Bl -item -compact
+.It
+.Lk "https://git.causal.agency/pounce" pounce
+.It
+.Lk "https://git.causal.agency/litterbox" litterbox
+.It
+.Lk "https://git.causal.agency/catgirl" catgirl
+.It
+.Lk "https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html" "SQLite FTS5 Extension"
+.It
+.Lk "https://git.causal.agency/scooper" scooper
+.It
+.Lk "https://kristaps.bsd.lv/kcgi/" kcgi
+.El
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An June Bug Aq Mt june@causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/011-libretls.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/011-libretls.7
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@@ -0,0 +1,220 @@
+.Dd August  9, 2020
+.Dt LIBRETLS 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm LibreTLS
+.Nd libtls for OpenSSL
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+This is a sort of announcement post about LibreTLS,
+my port of libtls from LibreSSL to OpenSSL.
+If you've wanted to try any of my software
+but have been unable to because of LibreSSL,
+LibreTLS is an option that will likely work for you.
+I'm including instructions
+for building it and my IRC software
+on Debian as an example,
+since manually installing libraries
+is less straightforward than it could be.
+.
+.Pp
+libtls is
+.Do
+a new TLS library,
+designed to make it easier to write foolproof applications
+.Dc .
+It was developed as part of LibreSSL,
+.Ox Ap s
+fork of OpenSSL,
+and is implemented against their version of libssl.
+It provides a nice high-level API
+for TLS sockets,
+with functions like
+.Xr tls_connect 3 ,
+.Xr tls_read 3
+and
+.Xr tls_write 3 .
+This is a vast improvement over libssl's
+confusing mess of an API!
+Its relative obscurity is a real shame
+for C programmers.
+.
+.Pp
+An obvious cause of its obscurity
+is that it is tied to LibreSSL.
+Although LibreSSL is available
+for platforms other than
+.Ox ,
+it conflicts with OpenSSL
+so is difficult to install alongside it
+and is often not packaged at all.
+Additionally,
+even if a user manually installs LibreSSL,
+libtls is likely not to work on some distros
+due to its hardcoded CA bundle file path.
+.
+.Pp
+Since libtls is implemented against libssl,
+which originates in OpenSSL,
+it should be possible to use libtls with it.
+This is what I set out to do in LibreTLS.
+I started by importing the sources
+from a LibreSSL-portable release,
+then worked on porting the portions
+that were incompatible with OpenSSL.
+.
+.Pp
+The simpler changes just involved
+replacing internal struct field accesses
+with public APIs.
+libtls accesses libssl internals
+using a hack to get the header files
+to declare private struct fields,
+and for basically no reason.
+The bigger changes involved
+reimplementing some functions
+which only exist in LibreSSL,
+but these were still quite small.
+I also imported the necessary compatibility functions
+from LibreSSL's libcrypto
+and adapated the autotools build files
+to produce only a libtls
+which depends on OpenSSL.
+.
+.Pp
+Along the way
+I decided to make one small behavioural change
+in order for LibreTLS to be more likely
+to work for everyone.
+I removed the hardcoded CA file path
+and changed the default configuration
+to use OpenSSL's default CA paths,
+which include a CA directory.
+This seems to be the preferred CA source
+on systems such as Debian,
+where the default CA file path doesn't exist.
+.
+.Pp
+I think the reason LibreSSL
+wants to avoid using a CA directory
+is so that it can fully load the CA file
+once before being sandboxed.
+However,
+using OpenSSL's default configuration,
+the CA file will still be loaded immediately
+if it exists.
+If it doesn't exist,
+sandboxed applications
+will fail when trying to
+load certificates from the directory,
+but unsandboxed applications
+will work just fine.
+Since LibreSSL's libtls
+would fail either way,
+I think the new behaviour
+is an improvement.
+.
+.Pp
+Another advantage of separating libtls from LibreSSL
+is that it is unencumbered by OpenSSL's
+awkward double-license,
+both of which are incompatible with the GPL.
+libtls is all new ISC-licensed code,
+and future versions of OpenSSL (3.0)
+will be released under the Apache 2.0 license,
+which is compatible with GPLv3.
+In the future,
+GPL software will be able to link with
+libtls and OpenSSL without additional permissions.
+.
+.Pp
+It's also worth noting that LibreSSL
+likely will not be able to import any code
+from future versions of OpenSSL,
+since Apache 2.0 is on
+.Ox Ap s
+license shitlist.
+LLVM is also slowly changing their license
+to Apache 2.0,
+so it'll be interesting to see what
+.Ox
+does.
+.
+.Ss Installing Manually
+To install LibreTLS on Debian,
+for example,
+fetch a release tarball from
+.Lk https://causal.agency/libretls/
+and install the build dependencies:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev pkgconf
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+.Xr pkgconf 1
+isn't a dependency of LibreTLS itself,
+but it's how my software
+configures its build
+for a dependency on libtls.
+The usual build steps
+will install the library:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+\&./configure
+make all
+sudo make install
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+The library will be installed in
+.Pa /usr/local/lib
+by default,
+and you need to make sure
+the dynamic linker
+will be able to find it there.
+On Debian,
+.Pa /usr/local/lib
+already appears in
+.Pa /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf ,
+but on other systems
+you'll probably need to add it to either
+.Pa /etc/ld.so.conf
+or a new file such as
+.Pa /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf .
+Once the library is installed
+and the path is configured,
+the linker cache needs to be refreshed:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+sudo ldconfig
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+You'll probably also need to set
+.Ev PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+for the configure scripts
+of my software:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure
+.Ed
+.
+.Pp
+On
+.Fx ,
+LibreTLS and some of my IRC software
+can be installed from my own
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/ports/ "ports tree"
+.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Bl -item -compact
+.It
+.Lk https://git.causal.agency/libretls/about LibreTLS
+.It
+.Lk https://man.openbsd.org/tls_init.3 "libtls API documentation"
+.El
+.
+.Pp
+Another alternative libtls implementation,
+.Lk https://sr.ht/~mcf/libtls-bearssl/ "libtls-bearssl"
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An June Bug Aq Mt june@causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/012-inability.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/012-inability.7
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+.Dd November 26, 2020
+.Dt INABILITY 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm Inability
+.Nd losing the ability to create
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+For often weeks, sometimes months at a time,
+I lose the ability to write new code.
+I can still make fixes
+and little cleanups
+in my existing projects,
+but if I try to work on something new,
+nothing happens.
+I can't get anything done.
+.
+.Pp
+I think it's now been
+over 3 months
+since I've created anything.
+I don't know what to do about it.
+In the past I've eventually
+regained the ability to code,
+but it's unclear to me how or why.
+I also don't know what
+I should be doing instead.
+Writing code is the only hobby
+I've ever really developed,
+so without it I basically
+don't do anything.
+.
+.Pp
+Does this happen to anyone else?
+How do you cope?
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.Mt june@causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/013-hot-tips.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/013-hot-tips.7
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+.Dd December  2, 2020
+.Dt HOT-TIPS 7
+.Os "Causal Agency"
+.
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm hot tips
+.Nd from my files
+.
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+This is a short list of tips
+from my configuration files and code
+that might be useful.
+.
+.Ss Shell
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It CDPATH=:~
+This is useful if you sometimes type,
+for example,
+.Ql cd src/bin
+wanting to go to
+.Pa ~/src/bin
+but you aren't in
+.Pa ~ .
+If the path doesn't exist
+in the current directory,
+.Ic cd
+will try it in
+.Pa ~
+as well.
+.
+.It alias ls='LC_COLLATE=C ls'
+This makes it so that
+.Xr ls 1
+lists files in ASCIIbetical order,
+which puts capitalized names like
+.Pa README
+and
+.Pa Makefile
+first.
+.
+.It git config --global commit.verbose true
+Not shell but close enough.
+This makes it so the entire diff is shown
+below the usual summary
+in the editor for a
+.Xr git-commit(1)
+message.
+Useful for doing a quick review
+of what you're committing.
+.El
+.
+.Ss (neo)vim
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It set inccommand=nosplit
+This is the only
+.Xr nvim 1
+feature I really care about
+aside from the improved defaults.
+This provides a live preview of what a
+.Ic :s
+substitution command will do.
+It makes it much easier to
+write complex substitutions.
+.
+.It nmap <leader>s vip:sort<CR>
+This mapping sorts the lines of a paragraph,
+or block of text separated by blank lines.
+I use this a lot to sort
+#include directives.
+.
+.It nmap <leader>S $vi{:sort<CR>
+Similar to the last mapping,
+this one sorts lines inside braces.
+I use this to sort
+switch statement cases
+or array initializers.
+.
+.It nmap <leader>a m':0/^#include <<CR>:nohlsearch<CR>O#include <
+I use this mapping to add new
+#include directives,
+usually followed by
+.Ic <leader>s
+and
+.Ic ''
+to sort them
+and return to where I was.
+.
+.It nmap <leader>d :0delete<CR>:0read !date +'.Dd \e%B \e%e, \e%Y'<CR>
+I use this to replace the first line of
+.Xr mdoc 7
+files with the current date.
+.El
+.
+.Ss C
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It #define Q(...) #__VA_ARGS__
+This is what I've started using
+to quote things like SQL statements
+or HTML fragments in C.
+Anything that happens to be valid C tokens,
+which is most code,
+can be quoted this way.
+Macros are not expanded
+inside the quoted part.
+You can embed (matched) quotes
+without having to escape them.
+Whitespace gets collapsed,
+so you can write nicely formatted multi-line SQL
+that doesn't mess up your debug logging,
+for example.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+const char *sql = Q(
+	INSERT OR IGNORE INTO names (nick, user, host)
+	VALUES (:nick, :user, :host);
+);
+.Ed
+.
+.It #define BIT(x) x##Bit, x = 1 << x##Bit, x##Bit_ = x##Bit
+I use this macro to declare bitflag enums.
+It takes advantage of
+auto-incrementing enum items
+so you don't need to set the values manually.
+You also get constants
+for both the bit index
+and the flag value
+for each item.
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+enum Attr {
+	BIT(Bold),
+	BIT(Reverse),
+	BIT(Italic),
+	BIT(Underline),
+};
+.Ed
+.Pp
+For example,
+defines
+.Sy ItalicBit = 2
+and
+.Sy Italic = 1 << 2 .
+Ignore the extraneous constants.
+.
+.It typedef int FnType(const char *str, size_t len);
+You can just typedef function types!
+It annoys me more than it probably should
+that everyone writes ugly
+function pointer typedefs.
+Just stick
+.Sy typedef
+on the front of a function declaration
+and use
+.Vt FnType * .
+.El
+.
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.Mt june@causal.agency
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile
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+WEBROOT = /usr/local/www/text.causal.agency
+
+TXTS += 001-make.txt
+TXTS += 002-writing-mdoc.txt
+TXTS += 003-pleasant-c.txt
+TXTS += 004-uloc.txt
+TXTS += 005-testing-c.txt
+TXTS += 006-some-libs.txt
+TXTS += 007-cgit-setup.txt
+TXTS += 008-how-irc.txt
+TXTS += 009-casual-update.txt
+TXTS += 010-irc-suite.txt
+TXTS += 011-libretls.txt
+TXTS += 012-inability.txt
+TXTS += 013-hot-tips.txt
+
+all: ${TXTS}
+
+.SUFFIXES: .7 .txt
+
+.7.txt:
+	mandoc -T utf8 $< | col -bx > $@
+
+feed.atom: feed.sh ${TXTS}
+	sh feed.sh > feed.atom
+
+clean:
+	rm -f ${TXTS} feed.atom
+
+install: ${TXTS} feed.atom
+	install -p -m 644 ${TXTS} feed.atom ${WEBROOT}
diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/feed.sh b/www/text.causal.agency/feed.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fe028621
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www/text.causal.agency/feed.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -eu
+
+readonly Root='https://text.causal.agency'
+
+updated=$(date -u '+%FT%TZ')
+cat <<-EOF
+	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+	<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
+	<title>Causal Agency</title>
+	<author><name>June</name><email>june@causal.agency</email></author>
+	<link href="${Root}"/>
+	<link rel="self" href="${Root}/feed.atom"/>
+	<id>${Root}/</id>
+	<updated>${updated}</updated>
+EOF
+
+encode() {
+	sed '
+		s/&/\&amp;/g
+		s/</\&lt;/g
+		s/"/\&quot;/g
+	' "$@"
+}
+
+for entry in *.7; do
+	txt="${entry%.7}.txt"
+	date=$(grep '^[.]Dd' "$entry" | cut -c 5-)
+	title=$(grep '^[.]Nm' "$entry" | cut -c 5- | encode)
+	summary=$(grep '^[.]Nd' "$entry" | cut -c 5- | encode)
+	published=$(date -ju -f '%B %d, %Y %T' "${date} 00:00:00" '+%FT%TZ')
+	mtime=$(stat -f '%m' "$entry")
+	updated=$(date -ju -f '%s' "$mtime" '+%FT%TZ')
+	cat <<-EOF
+		<entry>
+		<title>${title}</title>
+		<summary>${summary}</summary>
+		<link href="${Root}/${txt}"/>
+		<id>${Root}/${txt}</id>
+		<published>${published}</published>
+		<updated>${updated}</updated>
+		<content type="xhtml">
+		<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+	EOF
+	printf '<pre>'
+	encode "$txt"
+	cat <<-EOF
+		</pre>
+		</div>
+		</content>
+		</entry>
+	EOF
+done
+
+echo '</feed>'