From 7743a1d088b0cb7cbe696c3b7c04c628967a41bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: June McEnroe Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 19:44:12 -0400 Subject: Post "casual update" --- www/text.causal.agency/009-casual-update.7 | 127 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www/text.causal.agency/Makefile | 1 + 2 files changed, 128 insertions(+) create mode 100644 www/text.causal.agency/009-casual-update.7 diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/009-casual-update.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/009-casual-update.7 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0548436a --- /dev/null +++ b/www/text.causal.agency/009-casual-update.7 @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +.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/Makefile b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile index fb3b3ce2..34649128 100644 --- a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile +++ b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ 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 all: ${TXTS} -- cgit 1.4.1