diff --git a/about-filter.sh b/about-filter.sh
index ae45959..2e377c1 100755
--- a/about-filter.sh
+++ b/about-filter.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
#! /bin/sh
-/bin/markdown
+tryexec () {
+ command -v $1 >/dev/null && exec "$@"
+}
+
+tryexec pandoc -f markdown -t html
+tryexec markdown
+
+echo "no markdown thingies found"
+echo ""
+cat
+echo "
"
diff --git a/cgitrc b/cgitrc
index 238aeb2..20a4a18 100644
--- a/cgitrc
+++ b/cgitrc
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ strict-export=git-daemon-export-ok
about-filter=/home/neale/public_html/about-filter.sh
readme=:README.mdwn
+readme=:README.md
readme=:README
section-from-path=1
diff --git a/g.cgi.go b/g.cgi.go
index bbf671c..3dbc3fa 100644
--- a/g.cgi.go
+++ b/g.cgi.go
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import (
const GitProjectRoot = "/home/neale/projects"
const CgitConfig = "/home/neale/public_html/cgitrc"
-const Cgit = "/usr/lib/cgit/cgit.cgi"
+const Cgit = "/opt/cgit/cgit.cgi"
// printf "USER:PASS" | base64 | while read a; do printf "%s" "$a" | md5sum; done
var allowed = []string{
diff --git a/install b/install
index a763ce9..b6ea0bf 100755
--- a/install
+++ b/install
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ cc () {
}
gc () {
- target=$DESTDIR/${1%.c}
+ target=$DESTDIR/${1%.go}
if older $target $1; then
echo "GO $1"
go build -o $target $1
diff --git a/mp.cgi.go b/mp.cgi.go
index 2db1fd3..00fb75d 100644
--- a/mp.cgi.go
+++ b/mp.cgi.go
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ import (
"sync"
)
+var hosts = []HostEntry{
+ {"h.woozle.org:30919", "Ginnie (tablet)"},
+ {"h.woozle.org:44321", "Ginnie"},
+ {"h.woozle.org:58000", "Amy"},
+ {"h.woozle.org:29837", "Neale"},
+}
+
const MAGIC = "\x00\xff\xff\x00\xfe\xfe\xfe\xfe\xfd\xfd\xfd\xfd\x12\x34\x56\x78"
func isAlive(host string) bool {
@@ -41,12 +48,6 @@ type HostEntry struct {
owner string
}
-var hosts = []HostEntry{
- {"h.woozle.org:30919", "Ginnie"},
- {"h.woozle.org:44321", "Neale"},
- {"h.woozle.org:58000", "Amy"},
-}
-
func ping(results chan<- string, e HostEntry) {
defer wg.Done()
if isAlive(e.host) {
diff --git a/papers/floss-sucks.mdwn b/papers/floss-sucks.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9ad2920
--- /dev/null
+++ b/papers/floss-sucks.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,184 @@
+Title: FLOSS Development Sucks
+
+This Article Is A Work In Progress
+====================
+
+I'm not even sure where I'm going with this.
+Maybe I just needed to vent.
+I think there might be advice in here somewhere,
+but right now I'm tired of feeling pissed off,
+so I'm just going to save this and move on with my day.
+
+------------
+
+This morning I thought I'd mention to a couple old colleagues
+that I was still working on our codebase,
+and I was considering splitting it off into something new
+because it was looking like it might diverge pretty significantly.
+
+I've been on this IRC channel for about a month.
+There have been a sum total of 5 lines pasted,
+all of them saying "hello" and "help" before anybody answered.
+5+ years ago,
+it was just me, the author of the package,
+and another guy (the author of ratpoison),
+mostly just shooting the breeze about bicycles.
+The author had mentioned several times that the package was basically out of his hands,
+once it got merged into emacs.
+
+I've submitted a couple patches in the past,
+and they've been accepted upstream.
+
+So I tossed this out there expecting, if anything, a multi-day turnaround,
+hopefully from the author:
+
+> 08:32 neale> hello
+> 08:32 neale> I think I'm going to have to fork rcirc :(
+> 08:33 neale> I'm making too many changes and I don't have time to get them merged into emacs.
+
+And then went back to work.
+
+> 08:44 ams> what changes are you doing?
+
+Whoa, somebody responded!
+
+> 09:09 neale> I added a notion of "network" so you could have and distinguish multiple connections to the same server
+> 09:09 neale> umm...
+
+At this point I struggle to do a diff against the upstream source,
+to see what else I've done.
+I definitely wasn't expecting this right away,
+I figured I'd maybe put things up on github or something.
+
+> 09:11 ams> you can already do that afaik
+> 09:11 [neale raises an eyebrow]
+
+Who is this person?
+I read over the code pretty thoroughly before I added this in,
+I think I would have noticed if anything resembling my changes had existed already.
+
+Back do the diff, it looks like all my prior changes have actually been merged upstream,
+after five years or so!
+That's a pleasant surprise!
+
+> 09:12 ams> but if you cannot .. that doesn't seem like a hard thing to merge
+> 09:12 neale> I'm going to have to figure out a way to hack in support for channel passwords
+> 09:12 neale> that's going to probably need to break syntax
+> 09:12 ams> break syntax? of what?
+> 09:13 ams> you are being incoherent.
+> 09:13 neale> next on the list is I need a way to have channels default to lowpri/ignore when created, so, probably going to tack that on to rcirc-server-alist
+
+This happens sometimes on IRC.
+While I was writing that long line, they posted two more.
+I see I should now answer their other questions.
+But now they're insulting me?
+Who *is* this person?
+Are they just wasting my time because they like arguing?
+
+> 09:13 neale> of /join
+> 09:13 neale> right now /join takes a space-separated list of channels, I'll probably need to bring that in line with how other clients handle multiple channels with a single join (or more likely change it to space-separated)
+> 09:14 neale> sorry, change it to comma-separated
+
+I'm getting flustered here.
+I wasn't expecting to need to defend my changes.
+
+> 09:14 ams> why?
+> 09:14 ams> setting default priority should be trivial, and no need to change rcirc-server-alist
+
+This didn't even register with me until I started writing this paper.
+I told them I needed channels to start with a certain priority,
+so I was going to add that to the list of channels to connect to at startup.
+They referred me to the mechanism to set a global default.
+
+> 09:14 neale> ams: see, this is what I was saying about not having time to merge upstream :)
+> 09:15 neale> but it's good to know that there's somebody alive in here :)
+
+Yeah, I think this person isn't going to help.
+It's pretty typical that you have to do a sales pitch,
+over and over,
+to get your changes accepted.
+And I don't have time for that.
+I've already wasted enough time just trying to convince this one person
+that there was even a need for the work I've done so far.
+
+> 09:15 ams> you just said you haven't even written it ..
+> 09:15 ams> there is nothing to merge.
+> 09:15 neale> LOL okay
+
+Still feeling this person is just trying to waste my time and get me into an argument.
+I probably should have just stopped here, but...
+
+> 09:15 ams> and half of the things you mention can already be done
+> 09:15 neale> maybe you could write up how to do those things then, because it certainly wasn't obvious from the code :)
+
+If this person had been paying attention,
+a full 20% of last month's channel traffic had been requesting this exact feature.
+
+> 09:17 ams> i don't see the use for multiple connections to the same host on the same port, most networks prohibit that.
+> 09:17 neale> hahaha, excellent
+> 09:17 ams> you can already connect to multiple hosts though with different port numbers
+> 09:17 neale> Stop Wanting That!
+
+Now I'm mad!
+They're not even interested in why I would want the feature I coded up.
+They just want to tell me I'm wrong.
+This is the point at which I completely gave up,
+and was just saying words out of anger.
+
+I don't do well when I'm like this,
+but I know some people who are *excellent* in this situation,
+like my friend Nick.
+Sometimes I wish I were better,
+because people like this,
+I feel,
+need to be put in their place,
+and stop being hostile to everybody.
+
+> 09:17 ams> simply specify a different port
+> 09:17 ams> ok, you are trolling. i'll go back to doing something else.
+> 09:18 neale> I'm trolling, eh?
+> 09:19 neale> Man, look, I'm coming in with a need, you're telling me that a) it already does what I want, b) I don't actually have changes, and c) there's no need for me want what I said
+
+I'm still trying to (angrily) convince them
+that this is a horrible way to treat people they don't even know.
+
+> 09:19 ams> no, i didn't say that at all. now you are just spouting lies.
+> 09:19 ams> 17:19 /ignore neale
+> 09:19 neale> Who's trolling? Anyway what happened to rcy and sabetts? They were friendly :(
+> 09:20 neale> Wow, infuriating.
+
+But it's a lost cause.
+
+----
+
+This is pretty frequently how things go.
+I wish I'd saved the 20-minute argument I had to endure
+to convince some plan9 people
+that some users might want a their three-button mouse to have a scroll wheel.
+They eventually accepted that,
+yes,
+some users might actually want that,
+and what was the mouse I'd found that does this?
+
+This is not okay.
+The community is selecting for people who are good at arguing.
+We should not require every code contributor
+to champion their code's worth
+by besting the local troll in combat.
+Even though I envy Nick's level-headedness during empassioned debate,
+that skill has no correlation to the ability to make useful code contributions.
+
+In the troll's defense,
+this is just human nature.
+Say there's this group of men discussing mortise and tenon joints,
+and you have a better technique.
+The way things work in FLOSS, currently,
+is that you must step into this group an tell them they're doing it wrong.
+It takes an extraordinary individual to *not* tell you to fuck off.
+And you know that,
+which is why your social instincts are screaming at you to be very uncomfortable.
+So when the "fuck off" happens,
+you've steeled yourself for it,
+and then you get a slap fight.
+
+There has got to be a better way.
diff --git a/papers/joke-haiku.mdwn b/papers/joke-haiku.mdwn
index 371788e..43b6196 100644
--- a/papers/joke-haiku.mdwn
+++ b/papers/joke-haiku.mdwn
@@ -351,17 +351,17 @@ as a creative force.
Consider this haiku about commuting:
-> Sitting in my car
-> I watch the time tick away
+> Sitting in my car
+> I watch the time tick away
> This traffic sure sucks.
Pedestrian and boring, it took all of ten seconds to write. To write
a limerick on the same subject, one must work much harder:
-> Nothing's worse, there can be no dispute,
-> Than my everyday average commute.
-> In my car long I sit.
-> I just might throw a fit
+> Nothing's worse, there can be no dispute,
+> Than my everyday average commute.
+> In my car long I sit.
+> I just might throw a fit
> If I can't find an alternate route.
Okay, so it's not the best limerick that's ever been written, but in a
diff --git a/tmpl/mdwntohtml b/tmpl/mdwntohtml
index b96251a..5a72c86 100755
--- a/tmpl/mdwntohtml
+++ b/tmpl/mdwntohtml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ cat <$title
EOD
cat $tmpl/head.tmpl
-markdown
+pandoc -f markdown -t html5
cat $tmpl/foot.tmpl
cat <