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diff --git a/content/blog/Status-update-April-2022.md b/content/blog/Status-update-April-2022.md @@ -0,0 +1,104 @@ +--- +title: Status update, April 2022 +date: 2022-04-15 +--- + +This month marked my first time filing taxes in two countries, and I can assure +you it is the worst. I am now a single-issue voter in the US: stop taxing +expats! You can get some insight into the financials of SourceHut in the +recently-published [financial report]. But let's get right into the fun stuff: +free software development news. + +[financial report]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-04-08-2021-financial-report/ + +There was some slowdown from me this month thanks to all of the business and +financial crap I had to put up with, but I was able to get some cool stuff done +and many other contributors have been keeping things moving. I'll start by +introducing a new/old project: Himitsu. + +Essentially, Himitsu is a secret storage system whose intended use-case is to +provide features like password storage and SSH agent functionality. It draws +much of its inspiration from Plan 9's Factotum. You may have stumbled upon an +[early prototype][0] on git.sr.ht which introduces the basic idea and included +the start of an implementation in C. Ultimately I shelved this project for want +of a better programming language to implement it with, and then I made a better +programming language to implement it with. Over the past two weeks, I have +implemented something similar to where the C codebase was left, in fewer than +half the lines of code and much less than half the time. Here's a little peek at +what works now: + +[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/himitsu.old + +``` +[12:18:31] taiga ~/s/himitsu $ ./himitsud +Please enter your passphrase to unlock the keyring: +[2022-04-15 12:18:56] himitsud running +^Z[1]+ Stopped ./himitsud +[12:18:57] taiga ~/s/himitsu $ bg +[1] ./himitsud +[12:18:58] taiga ~/s/himitsu $ nc -U ~/.local/state/himitsu/socket +add proto=imap host=example.org user=sir@cmpwn.com password!="Hello world!" +^C +[12:19:12] taiga ~/s/himitsu $ ls ~/.local/share/himitsu/ +2849c1d5-61b3-4803-98cf-fc57fe5f69a6 index key +[12:19:14] taiga ~/s/himitsu $ cat ~/.local/share/himitsu/index +YNfVlkORDX1GmXIfL8vOiiTgBJKh47biFsUaKrqzfMP2xfD4B9/lqSl2Y9OtIpVcYzrNjBBZOxcO81vNQdgnvxQ+xaCKaVpQS4Dh6DyaY0/lpq6rfowTY5GwcI155KkmTI4z1ABOVkL4z4XDsQ2DEiqClcQE5/+CxsQ/U/u9DthLJRjrjw== +[12:19:19] taiga ~/s/himitsu $ fg +./himitsud +^C[2022-04-15 12:19:22] himitsud terminated +[12:19:22] taiga ~/s/himitsu $ ./himitsud +Please enter your passphrase to unlock the keyring: +Loaded key proto=imap host=example.org user=sir@cmpwn.com password!=2849c1d5-61b3-4803-98cf-fc57fe5f69a6 +[2022-04-15 12:19:29] himitsud running +^C[2022-04-15 12:19:31] himitsud terminated +[12:19:33] taiga ~/s/himitsu $ find . -type f | xargs wc -l | tail -n1 + 895 total +``` + +This project is progressing quite fast and I hope to have it working for some +basic use-cases soon. I'll do a dedicated blog post explaining how it works and +why it's important later on, though it will remain mostly under wraps until the +language is released. + +Speaking of the language, there were a number of exciting developments this +month. Two major standard library initiatives were merged: regex and datetime. +The regex implementation is simple, small, and fast, targeting POSIX ERE as a +reasonably sane conservative baseline regex dialect. The datetime implementation +is quite interesting as well, and it provides a pretty comprehensive API which +should address almost all use-cases for timekeeping in our language with a +robust and easy-to-use API. As a bonus, and a little flex at how robust our +design is, we've included support for Martian time. I'm very pleased with how +both of these turned out. + +```hare +use datetime; +use fmt; +use os; +use time::chrono; + +export fn main() void = { + const now = datetime::in(chrono::MTC, datetime::now()); + fmt::printf("Current Martian coordinated time: ")!; + datetime::format(os::stdout, datetime::STAMP, &now)!; + fmt::println()!; +}; +``` + +Other recent improvements include support for signal handling, glob, aes-ni, and +net::uri. Work has slowed down on cryptography — please get in touch if +you'd like to help. Many readers will be happy to know that there are rumblings +about possibly going public soon; after a couple more milestones we'll be having +a meeting to nail down the most urgent priorities before going public and then +we'll get this language into your hands to play with. + +I also started a bittorrent daemon in this language, but it's temporarily +blocked until we sort out HTTP/TLS. So, moving right along: SourceHut news? +Naturally I will leave most of it for the "what's cooking" post, but I'll offer +you a little tease of what we've been working on: GraphQL. We landed support +this month for GraphQL-native webhooks in todo.sr.ht, as well as some new +improvements to the pages.sr.ht GQL API. hg.sr.ht is also now starting to see +some polish put on its GraphQL support, and some research is underway on GraphQL +Federation. Very soon we will be able to put a bow on this work. + +That's all for today! Thanks again for reading and for your ongoing support. I +appreciate you!