Luke is working on
improving the GNU/Linux ecosystem

I haven't posted a #DailyStandup since last Wednesday b/c posting is emotional labor and I've been emotionally used-up by shocking revelations in my personal life.

But! I have been working!

Been doing:
- On Saturday I went to a Colorado Green Builders' Guild event—getting #FreeSoftware onto HVAC equipment! #OpenHVAC
- Inventing a test-harness for Single Board Computers that I've been fantasizing about for years (thread/)

Will do:
- Tomorrow I'm going to the Northern Colorado Climate Meetup

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- I think I've completed the terrible preprocessor hack that I'm calling `fuse_optdoc.h`
- Working on auditing libfuse's documentation.
- Helping @amerl set up a server

#DailyStandup

Since Friday:
- The nspawn FUSE PR got merged! https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/34067

Today:
- Re-auditing libfuse to make sure that all end-user-facing options are documented. Involves some fancy wrangling of the C preprocessor. The preprocessor hackery felt like a good self-contained puzzle to solve to start the week.

#DailyStandup Yesterday:
- Got the #systemd nspawn FUSE PR to pass CI (…but it's failing again now‽)
- Benchmark #ruby json patches https://github.com/flori/json/pull/567#issuecomment-2333350013 …"interesting" change in baseline variance since April

Today:
- Respond to feedback on the nspawn PR
- Feel spent, figure unstructured work will turn into something productive.… not so far

Other:
- Bugs on https://www.lukeshu.com/imworkingon/ 😞

#DailyStandup Woops, didn't post Tuesday or yesterday. But it's been productive!

- #Parabola's #Ruby is updated!
- Submitted a Fix to #ArchLinux's Ruby https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ruby/-/merge_requests/7
- Made a nice README for Parabola's GPL-compatible Ruby releases https://github.com/parabola-gnulinuxlibre/ruby-json
- Got to "lgtm" on adding FUSE support to #systemd nspawn https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/34067

Today:
- Getting the nspawn FUSE PR's CI to pass
- Updating+benchmarking the GPL-fix to upstream ruby-json.

#DailyStandup

So I'm working on upgrading #Parabola's #Ruby. But the ARM build takes forever and so my iteration time on solving problems is slow.

In the course of this I've found some bugs in #Qemu https://fosstodon.org/@lukeshu/113069912188713315 I'm working around them by disabling affected tests if we're running in a qemu chroot. After I get the bew Ruby out, I'll look into fixing the Qemu bugs... but IDK how I'm going to prioritize that against other existing work.

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What I did yesterday:
- Responded to feedback on the nspawn FUSE PR https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/34067
- Looked at upgrading #Parabola Ruby 3.0→3.2. Filed https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ruby/-/merge_requests/6

What I'm doing today:
- Upgrading Parabola's Ruby.
- Looking into CI failures on the nspawn FUSE PR.

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Got a new version of the systemd-nspawn FUSE PR pushed off

What I'm doing today:
- Responding to feedback on said PR.
- you decide!

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What I did yesterday:
- I was trying to get a new version of the nspawn-fuse PR ready
- but I went down some yaks with the #systemd tests, ending up with some hacking on #mkosi.

What I'm doing today:
- A little more work on mkosi. I want better reporting of its capabilities based on what's installed; no more "error, do you have createrepo_c installed?" 20min into a build. I want a real #Parabola story for mkosi.
- Anyway, I'm too many yaks deep, I should get back to nspawn-fuse.

No real #DailyStandup yesterday or today because of dealing with family stuff.

But I did put up https://github.com/mailprocessing/mailprocessing/pull/16 yesterday morning.

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- On Friday I decided to work on #Parabola stuff to take a break from the doc parser.
- But then some hardware came and I worked on reverse-engineering my Sensi Predict to patch their firmware to hopefully keep them out of landfills. #OpenHVAC
- But then yak lead to another and now I'm working on supporting FUSE inside of nspawn containers. #systemd https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17607

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Yesterday:
- Made a minor change to the glib doc PR based on feedback; it is now landed #gtk https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/4187
- Kept working on getting the gi-docgen parser to pass its tests

Today:
- Still working on the gi-docgen parser. Current status is only 57 failing tests (out of almost 2 million).
- There are some emails I should do. We'll see if I actually do.

#DailyStandup

- Inching ever closer to my gi-docgen parser tests passing
- I found some mistakes in the glib2 docs' conversion from gtk-doc to gi-docgen, putting together an MR to fix those upstream. #gtk (edit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/4187)

#DailyStandup

So close to being happy with the new gi-docgen parser.

The 71 failures in pymdext.FuzzFencedCodeXHTML are the core HTML-BlockProcessor and the pymdext FencedCode-BlockProcessor clashing with eachother. I know what's wrong, but am trying to figure out a way to fix it that isn't a PITA.

The 4300 failures in gidocgen.FuzzHTML are that plus issues with GI-DocGen syntax extensions. It looks like most of them are the test harness not handling [type@name] links correctly.

#gtk

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Got back from #FOSSY last night (instead of mid-day, because ✨airlines✨).

Gotta email/follow up with several folks who I exchanged business cards with. #OpenHVAC.

Still working on the new gi-docgen parser. #gtk

#DailyStandup Whoops, no post yesterday

What I did yesterday:
- Fixed more discrepancies between the new doc-parser and existing gi-docgen #gtk
- Reworked the test-util library to be more coherent

What I'm doing today:
- Reworking the tests to use persistent Python processes when testing against gi-docgen (and gtk-doc); this seems to improve the run-time for my expanded >100k entry test corpus from 2h45m to 3m

What I'm doing tomorrow:
- Getting on an airplane and flying to Portland for #FOSSY

#DailyStandup

Today:
- Updated some out-of-date #Parabola packages
- Picked up the Parabola stickers to give out at #FOSSY. Very happy with how they turned out.
- Still trying to iron out discrepancies in the new gi-docgen-compatible doc-parser. #gtk

#DailyStandup

I've fixed a number of places where the new doc-parser disagrees with gi-docgen. Hoping to have all of the core markdown disagreements resolved today, and move on to the bits of extension syntax tomorrow. It looks like all of the remaining disagreements in the core markdown might actually be problems in the tests' normalization steps, not actual problems with the parser. #gtk

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Fixed some O(n²) space and time issues in the new doc-parser's inline-parser. #gtk

Today:
- Discovered this morning that the #Parabola build server's sshd wasn't responding. A system update had bungled our SSO config. Fixed that.
- I think I've got the new doc-parser's block parser behavior up to matching Python-Markdown 3.6 (it was matching 3.4.4 before).

Next up:
- Fixing the inline parser. I suspect all of the diffs come down to 1 big bug and 1 small bug.

#DailyStandup

Still getting the tests for the new doc parser to be identical to gi-docgen #gtk. Found a case where memory explodes... it's times like this that I really wish #GoLang had a linter where I could say "complain at me if this argument escapes"... I started to work on such a thing maybe a year ago, but I never finished fixing the diagnostics coming out of the compiler... I should go back to that at some point.

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Friday/weekend::
- Did more work on getting the new doc-parser to match the behavior of newer gi-docgen. #gtk
- Sat upgraded the Parabola build server's RAM
- Sun spent some time cataloging the various art & media #Parabola has (why did coadde use such ridiculous filenames!?)

Today:
- got sucked into spending way too much time still going through the media.
- ordered Parabola stickers to give out at #FOSSY :parabola:
- Keep working on the doc-parser discrepancies.

#DailyStandup Python-Markdown has a bug where it screws up string-offsets after certain malformed HTML. The can result in HTML blocks getting mangled.

This used to be very predictable, but w/ an optimization in v3.5.1+, it's not, because it caches things, and whether the cache entry is good or bad (& how bad) depends on exact program flow.

For the last 2 days I've tried to be bug-for-bug compatible with the new behavior, but today I give up & am monkey-patching Python-Markdown to fix the bug.

#DailyStandup

What I'm doing:
- Testing & debugging the new gotk4 doc-parser.

Challenges/blockers:
- The recent bump of nixpkgs on mainline gotk4 means I probably now need to support the "admonition" syntax that was introduced in gi-docgen 2023.2 (I've been targeting 2023.1). #gtk

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- I got the new doc-parser wired in to gotk4 and working end-to-end.

What I'm doing today:
- Ironing it out and testing and validating that the output is good. #gtk.

#DailyStandup

I've now got the new doc-parser wired-in and working end-to-end in the gotk4 generator. I need to figure out my strategy for validating that its output is what I expect.

#DailyStandup

What I'm doing today:
- Got the new doc-parser wired in to gotk4. But I have a few `panic("TODO")`s left for some AST node types in the markdown->godoc renderer. #gtk

Might call it a day? Switching from data-flow to the renderer might be too big of a mental context switch to get much more productivity today.

#DailyStandup Whoops, no post yesterday.

What I did yesterday:
- Finally got the new #Parabola systemd out.
- Swapped the gotk4 code back into my head.

What I did/am doing today:
- Getting the new doc-parser wired into gotk4. I've got it done for most types, but I still need to figure class-interface.go. #gtk

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Updated a bunch of PRs, as mentioned in yesterday's standup (gotk4 PR landed)
- Said I was gonna follow-up on the vboot 32bit fix, but I realized I didn't have a 32bit box with me, so I didn't get to do that
- Started upgrading #Parabola's systemd.

What I did today:
- Upgrading Parabola's systemd. These upgrades aren't (usually) "complicated", but are a bunch of cross-referencing umpteen things. & as cool as .notes.dlopen is, it moved a buncha the things.

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What I've done since Tuesday:
- Celebrated a holiday.
- I wanted to celebrate the holiday by pushing out a new #Parabola libretools release, but I didn't get it out until Saturday https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2024-July/008946.html

What I'm doing today:
- Updated (v12) the gotk4 PR https://github.com/diamondburned/gotk4/pull/140 #gtk
- Responded to feedback on the #GoLang html escape sync CLs https://golang.org/cl/580896 https://golang.org/cl/580855
- Respond to feedback on the vboot CL https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/platform/vboot_reference/+/5586382 #Libreboot

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Landed the big #Parabola libretools flag-parsing overhaul.
- Updated a bunch of servers (personal, Parabola, Umorpha) because of the OpenSSH vuln

Today:
- Landed the last of Bill's libretools patches that are "ready"
- Landed a bunch of libretools doc improvements
- Will finish figuring out the libretools messy v20240327 release

#DailyStandup I sort of burned myself out and so didn't post at all last week.

I was still doing things tho:
Lots of work with #Parabola libretools (dev tools):
- Added style checks (inc but not limited to shfmt)
- 3 bugs found & fixed
- Consistently handle both long/short --help/-h, & generally have more consistent flag handling.
- Review a bunch of Bill's work

Today:
- Figure out what I want to do about the messy v20240327
- Finish/merge the flag stuff
- Maybe finish up some doc improvement

#DailyStandup

Putting the binutils stuff on pause to do some #Parabola stuff and maybe respond to issues on other PRs.

- Review Parabola libretools patches
- Updating a few Parabola packages
- Work through the Parabola mailinglist backlog.

#DailyStandup

Still fussing with the binutils-gdb ./bootstrap patchset.

#DailyStandup Whoops, haven't posted in a few days.

Tuesday:
- I had a list of things I was going to respond to, but of those, I only got to the #GNU binutils patchset.

Wednesday:
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=6kcxHlzTsIg

Thursday:
- Still working on updating the binutils patchset.

Friday:
- Likewise.

Today:
- Likewise.

The challenge is that I've realized that to be useful going forward, ./bootstrap needs to handle ChangeLogs differently than I have been, so I'm reworking that.

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Studied how data flows through the gotk4 codebase.

What I'm doing today:
- Responding to feedback on the #GNU binutils patchset, the #GoLang http.UnescapeString CLs, and the vboot CL.
- Trying to get the gi-docgen/gtk-doc parser wired into gotk4.

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Between the power being out & my brain being broken, not much

Today:
- Updated https://www.lukeshu.com/imworkingon/ to get "last updated" for pipermail mailinglist archives
- Wrote some notes on email message threading https://www.lukeshu.com/blog/message-threading.html
- Wrote a bit at https://www.lukeshu.com/imworkingon/ about why this week's work on #GNU #binutils is important. #supply_chain_attack

If any of this seems useful or important to you, plz consider throwing a few dollars my way https://www.lukeshu.com/sponsor/

#DailyStandup

What I've been doing the last 3 days:
- Working on a `./bootstrap` for #GNU #binutils ...

What I'm doing today:
- ...finished and sent it! https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2024-June/134608.html
- Finally responding to feedback on other changes I've sent off.

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday, what I'm hopefully wrapping up today:

- Tracking down where all of the bundled files in #GNU #binutils came from, and writing tooling to keep track of them: https://fosstodon.org/@lukeshu/112567161882177886

#DailyStandup

There's PR feedback that I should be responding to (at least: on the #GoLang html.UnescapeString CLs, and on the vboot CL)

But instead imma spend the day experimenting with changes to #GNU binutils. Feeding your creativity is important. I'll respond to the PR feedback tomorrow.

#DailyStandup

Challenges/blockers:
- I've had a headache basically all day. Not much is getting done.

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I've got clamps on my main laptop because the shell cracked, so while that cures I've spent the day:

- Getting #LibreBoot to build on and old (32-bit) x60, including submitting a patch to upstream vboot. https://fosstodon.org/@lukeshu/112532780052794338

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- New #Parabola libretools
- Fussed with upload size limits for labs.parabola.nu
- Forgot to post a standup

What I'm doing today:
- https://fosstodon.org/@lukeshu/112481647887553207
- Dealing with some 32-bit #Parabola woes (ruby is uninstallable, some outdated packages)

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- New #Parabola pacman w/ modern makepkg.conf CFLAGS et c. (Was waiting for all architectures to get GCC 14)
- Mostly update systemd, hit an LDFLAGS issue on ARM
- Progress w/ the labs.parabola.nu lockup

Today:
- More lockup (see my other toots!)
- Figure out what the hell is going on w/ ALARM CFLAGS/LDFLAGS (maybe push out yet another pacman)
- Update systemd, then grub

Challenges:
-ARM flags
- Flying to Indianapolis for the 500. IDK how much work I'll do this week

#DailyStandup

What I did since Friday:
- Watching the #Parabola servers for errors. redmine seems to wedge every day at about noon MDT. No idea why.
- Updated https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/systemd/-/merge_requests/12
- Added "last updated by" fields to all the PRs tracked on https://www.lukeshu.com/imworkingon/

What I'm doing today:
- Oops, I killed labs with gdb, gotta wait until tomorrow to try debugging it again :(
- Responding to feedback on https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio/-/merge_requests/362
- Updating #Parabola's pacman, systemd, grub

#DailyStandup

Mostly just watching the #Parabola servers for fallout from the migration and to figure out what the next server-maintenance step is.

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Updated #Parabola's libre/ruby2.7
- Added to Parabola pcr/uwsgi-plugin-rack2.7 (I'm pondering if this is worth MR'ing into #ArchLinux's extra/uwsgi)
- Got the Redmine install's Ruby versions all worked out it seems

What I'm doing today:
- Realized that winston.parabola.nu's redmine log is huge, gotta figure out logrotate
- Make sure that I can copy the redmine data over, then update the DNS!
- Didn't get to https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/systemd/-/merge_requests/12 yesterday

#DailyStandup

What I did the other day:
- Gave up on getting #Parabola's old custom Redmine working with Ruby 3 for now, decided to proceed with Ruby 2.7, which means...

What I'm doing today
- Updating Parabola's libre/ruby2.7 (which was on 2.7.3, not 2.7.8) including backporting my CVTUTF replacement to it
- Packaging pcr/uwsgi-plugin-rack2.7 to use that
- Let's see if that gets our Redmine working
- edit: Oh, following up https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/systemd/-/merge_requests/12 which I had forgotten about

#DailyStandup

> I'm seeing the pattern that I work on stuff during the weekend, then run out of steam Monday afternoon, then get jack shit done on Tuesday and actually rest on Tuesday. — https://fosstodon.org/@lukeshu/112321783828407767

> It's wild how *quickly* running out of energy takes you from "I'm being productive" to "I can't get a single thing done, not even shitpost on fedi." Like the transition is a span of minutes. — https://fosstodon.org/@lukeshu/112440421163933199 (yesterday)

Wanna guess how today went?

Today:
- Ruby version hell

#DailyStandup

What I did on Saturday:
- Got side-tracked from migrating labs.parabola.nu to a new server by figuring out that pacman 6.1.0 misbehaves if stdin is closed (https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues/136)

What I'm doing today:
- Updated my #vultr price chart (https://fosstodon.org/@lukeshu/112435524277864809) because I realized that I made a dumb choice about a server size
- Actually(?) migrating labs.parabola.nu to a new server #Parabola

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Pushed out a new #Parabola :parabola: libretools https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2024-May/008883.html
- Updated a few other Parabola packages
- Got everything(?) on winston.parabola.nu turned back on

Today:
- Migrating labs.parabola.nu to a new server.

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Responded to a bunch of emails to the #Parabola dev@ mailing list
- Parabola makes other packages better https://github.com/luigifab/awf-extended/pull/9
- Found that #Parabola #ARM's default `makepkg.conf` needs changed b/c ALARM is still on GCC 12
- Fixed a bug in libretools that causes pain when building members of base-devel

Today:
- New libretools with a fix for that issue
- New pacman with the makepkg.conf change
- New pcr/awf-extended
- New libre/musescore
- Fix Parabola servers

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Updated the gotk#140 PR to drop part that the maintainer doesn't want to merge.
- I said I was going to do #Parabola things, but really I spent most of the day writing a RELAX NG library for #GoLang for no real reason.

What I'm doing today:
- So far, not much
- Going to BLUG #Boulder #LinuxUsersGroup
- Respond to dev@ Parabola emails
- Talk with Bill about Parabola server migrations

#DailyStandup (2/2)

Not something I did, but something that happened:
- Friday's #mkinitcpio v39 release means that my #ARM improvements are now in a stable release. #ArchLinuxARM should no longer have to patch mkinitcpio!

What I'm doing today:
- Following up with the gotk4 prep PR
- Working through some of the #Parabola packaging backlog.
- Working through some of the Parabola email mailinglist backlog

Challenges/blockers:
- Waiting for @amerl to email me some files I'd saved on his laptop

#DailyStandup (1/2)

Since Friday:

> If I bum @amerl's #FrameworkLaptop then #HiDPI tools are going to improve this weekend.

- Concrete ideas for HiDPI troubleshooting tools
- Tracked down the bug in #Tk that causes some apps (like `git gui`) to not have HiDPI text (while others like `gitk` are unaffected). It's already fixed in 9.y beta, so I need to convince them it's worth backporting to 8.6.z stable.
- Reproduced a bug in the #KDE Plasma6 screen locker that had been closed as fixed.

#DailyStandup

What I did today:
- In Boston for #LibrePlanet!
- Figuring out the flow of data through the gotk4 generator so I can get the I for I need to the right place.
- Had a good time catching up with people at the @fsf office.

Challenges:
- My laptop's charge port has decided to not work. On the bright side, if I bum @amerl's #FrameworkLaptop then #HiDPI tools are going to improve this weekend.

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Yesterday:
- Decided that supporting malformed lists is a non-goal of my GI-DocGen parser.
- Went back to integrating my parser into the gotk4 generator. #gtk

What I'm doing today:
- Integrating my parser into the gotk4 generator. Having to rewrite some things because when I'd started it I didn't know what the shape of the interface of my parser would turn out to be.
- I've got a midnight flight to #Boston for the @fsf's #LibrePlanet conference.

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Reverse engineered some of the Webflow API so we can get the Umorpha website off of it. I should write up some of that on my blog.
- More GI-DocGen parser fixes.

What I'm doing today:
- Giving up mimicking GI-DocGen emitting lists (<ul> / <ol>) that contain things other than <li>
- Still trying to get this parser over the line.
- Prepping to fly to #LibrePlanet tomorrow night.

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Fixed bugs in my GI-DocGen parser.
- Left the fuzzer running for a few hours to find more bugs.

What I'm doing today:
- Some website-handoff stuff for Umorpha
- Fixing more Gi-DocGen parser bugs.

#DailyStandup

What I did on Friday and over the weekend:
- Got the Python-Markdown compatible parser for the GI-DocGen thing passing its tests! #gtk

What I'm doing today:
- Fixing a CSS bug on narrow-but-not-too-narrow screens on https://www.lukeshu.com/imworkingon/ and adding last-updated-by info to the page.
- Figuring out how HTML5 deals with \x00 bytes, for the purposes of the GI-DocGen parser.

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Got my GI-DocGen parser to handle implied-end-tag cases, getting it down to just 3 "types" of test failures. #gtk

What I'm doing today:
- I'd really like to say "wrapping up this parser, there are just a few bugs left!" but if the bugs were easy, I'd have already fixed them… so more realistically…
- handling HTML5's "no nested <a> elements" rule

If you'd like to fund this work to improve GI tooling and other GNU/Linux things: https://lukeshu.com/sponsor/

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Dropped testing-compatibility hacks from the GI-DocGen parser that enable the tests to get the exact newlines as the old Python parser; instead the tests now normalize whitespace between block elements. #gtk
- Implemented the HTML5 "block element implies '</p>'" logic in said parser.

What I'm doing today:
- Figuring out how to handle more implied-end-tag cases.
- Figuring out how to handle the "no nested <a> elements" rule.

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Fixed a mistake in https://golang.org/cl/580855 (my backport of improvements from std "html" to "x/net/html")
- Fixed the "&nLt;" and "&nGt;" bug in #golang html.UnescapeString (but I'm holding off on submitting the bugfix CL(s) until the sync CLs land — https://github.com/LukeShu/net/tree/lukeshu/html-unescape if you want to see it)
- Fixed my website on mobile

What I'm doing today:
- Contemplating the horror that is HTML's nesting rules in relation to Python-Markdown (Gi-DocGen #gtk)

I'm seeing the pattern that I work on stuff during the weekend, then run out of steam Monday afternoon, then get jack shit done on Tuesday and actually rest on Tuesday.

Anyway, #DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Put up https://golang.org/cl/580896 and https://golang.org/cl/580855 to sync code between "x/net/html" and std "html"
- Got the HTML entity escaping rules in the GI-DocGen parser worked out. #gtk

Today:
- prolly not a lot
- Figuring out how to implement HTML5's nesting rules in the GI-DocGen parser

#DailyStandup

What I did on Friday:
- Got my GI-DocGen parser normalizing inline HTML per the HTML5 rules #gtk

What I did over the weekend:
- Added a viewer for my #DailyStandup mastodon posts to https://www.lukeshu.com/imworkingon/ , with a cool calendar view
- Worked on more bugs in the GI-DocGen parser
- Started on a PR to fix #GoLang html.UnescapeString https://fosstodon.org/@lukeshu/111101456648543279

What I'm doing today:
- Addressing the drift between Go "golang.org/x/net/html" and std "html"
- More GI-DocGen parser bugs

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- I spent the day reworking the GI-DocGen parser's tests, because I realized a lot of the failures I was hitting were quirks in my test suite, not bugs in the code-under-test. #gtk

Today:
- Getting the GI-DocGen parser to properly normalize inline HTML, as is now evident that it has to do based on the new test setup.

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Add "released" detection to https://www.lukeshu.com/imworkingon/
- But mostly didn't get to work on things yesterday.
- My mkinitcpio ARM zImage PR got merged!
Today:
- A few more incremental improvements to the imworkingon page
- Chugging through fuzzer-found bugs in my GI-DocGen parser

#DailyStandup

Friday:
- Got the GTK-Doc/GI-DocGen markdown parser updated to use Nix Flakes and rebased up to gotk4 HEAD
- but didn't really get anything else done

Over the weekend:
- I made https://www.lukeshu.com/imworkingon/ to have a cool tracker of what I've been working on (I ack that the page is fairly rough at this point). If you find any of that work valuable, please consider sponsoring me.

Today:
- Responded to more feedback on the mkinitcpio ARM zImage PR
- Honestly, IDK, too many choicies

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Responded to more feedback on various PRs.
- At #BoulderLUG #Boulder #LUG, listened to a new class from David of the #SoftwareFreedom School
https://sofree.us/

Today:
- Figure out #Nix Flakes enough to rebase the gotk4 markdown parser up to HEAD (since I started my branch, gotk4 has switched from `.nix/default.nix` to Flakes)
- Rather than grinding at fuzzer-found bugs in the gotk4 parser, might get some other (Linux? FUSE? EroFS?) docs improvements fired off?

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Worked on the gotk4 gi-docgen markdown parser.

Today:
- Responding to more feedback on the mkinitcpio PR
- Responding to feedback on the preliminary gotk4 docs PR.
- Working through more test failures on the gotk4 gi-docgen markdown parser.

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Responded to some feedback on the mkinitcpio #ARM zImage PR
- Responded to some feedback on the @Liberapay @libravatar PR. It is now merged and deployed! Federated avatars now work on Liberapay! #Federation
- Kept working on gotk4 GTK-Doc/GI-DocGen markdown parsing. #GObject

Today:
- Responding to more feedback on the mkinitcpio PR.
- Still working on the GI-DocGen parser.

#DailyStandup

Friday:
- who even remembers

Today:
- I spent some time yesterday finally coming back to parsing GTK-Doc/GI-DocGen markup, and I think I'm going to let that be my focus for today.

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- I submitted proper @libravatar federation to @Liberapay https://github.com/flori/json/pull/567

Today:
- Benchmarking the changes I made to the #ruby #json gem to make it #FOSS/GPL-compatible. Preliminary results are that my new #FreeSoftware code is faster than the old proprietary code! https://github.com/flori/json/pull/567#issuecomment-2040513200

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Pushed out #Parabola libretools v20240403 https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2024-April/008866.html ; support for makepkg v6.1!
- Spent way more time than expected reviewing Bill's contributions to libretools

Today:
- Implementing proper @libravatar federation for @Liberapay https://github.com/liberapay/liberapay.com/pull/2334
- More libretools contribution reviewing

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Didn't get through any of my stated goals, but
- I did find an issue in #Parabola where some package files that are mentioned on the .db file aren't on the mirrors
Today:
- Actually doing a new #Parabola libretools (see: bug#3622)
- Realistically, I don't think I'm going to be submitting my #Linux kernel config-docs patches today, but that's my "if I'm not making progress on the other thing" task today.

#DailyStandup

Since Thursday:
- Submitted a non-draft version of my PR to make mkinitcpio correctly handle ARM zImage files

Today:
- Updating #Parabola libretools to work with the new makepkg.
- Getting some #Linux kernel devdocs polished up to submit upstream.

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Figuring out what I want my ruby-json benchmark strategy to be.

Today:
- My script for generating kernels for the mkinitcpio tests has some trouble with kernels v6.0 and older, so dealing with that (I want to go down to v4.15)
- Continuing with ruby-json benchmarking

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Update my mkinitcpio detect-ARM-zImage-files patch to properly deal with more kernel configurations, adding tests for them
- Submit improvements to file(1) and fixes to the magic(5) man-page
- left a script running overnight testing the mkinitcpio patch against a bunch (thousands) of historical kernels...

What I'm doing today:
- ... still leaving that running
- benchmarking the ruby-json replace-CVTUTF PR

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Working on a system for building firmware images for embedded devices/appliances based on #Parabola (reviving osi-mk from https://git.parabola.nu/~lukeshu/notsystemd-tests.git/)

What I'm doing today:
- Still that
- Deploying a git server for Umorpha
- new #Parabola libretools?

Blockers/concerns:
- I just cant *believe* that hacks I wrote 5 years ago have bit-rotted.
- Parabola's systemd is a version behind
- Parabola's grub is old

#DailyStandup:

What I did yesterday:

- Spent some time rebasing things from testbench mkosi up to current mkosi to submit upstream
- Order another phone as a dev tool for my #SignalApp fork

What I'm doing today:

- Push out a SignalApp build
- First day officially working for Umorpha Systems
- Figuring out a good process for building OS disk images (with mkosi?)
- ... deploying a Gitea server appliance
- new #parabola libretools version?

Concerns/blockers:

- none?

#DailyStandup

- Because I was wanting to borrow some code from it, I fixed bitrot in https://git.lukeshu.com/2git/cvtutf-make/ which is the scripts that make the https://git.lukeshu.com/2git/cvtutf repo, which is the history of the CVTUTF #Unicode library. #SoftwareArcheology

#DailyStandUp

- The last 3 days have been 100% dedicated to finding Olive who pushed out a window screen Saturday night/Sunday morning. She's back home safe now!!! #cat #CatsOfMastodon #reunited

I don't have an excuse for last week tho.

- Investigated a bug with kmod v31 and #LinuxLibre v6.3.3 not playing nice on #Parabola. No conclusion yet.

#DailyStandup

- workin on the gidocgen parser
- improving btrfs-rec rebuild-mappings

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- So I think the gi-docgen HTML parser is finally bug-free? Fuzzer hasn't found any issues in a while.

Today:
- I saw that @orsinium published his #golang enum library (https://github.com/orsinium-labs/enum), so I took a peek at it and filed a couple minor PRs :)
- Work on improving the btrfs-rec rebuild-mappings algorithm #btrfs

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Had a not very productive day working on the gi-docgen parser

Today:
- Having a very productive day working on the gi-docgen parser. I think I have basically all the parts working, and now I just need to tie things together.

Concerns/blockers:
- idk

#DailyStandup

- Ugg I'm the worst and haven't been posting standups this week

Today:
- Try to get the gi-docgen html block processor working
- Fuss with #SignalApp MMS

Blockers/Concerns:
- ?

#DailyStandup

Yesterday:
- Slept 'til 3pm
- #fuzzer found an issue with the gi-docgen blockparser (hence the #Unicode toots)
- Read Umorpha's mission+values doc
- put the LED in my lightsaber that I drilled the hole for in May
- SIM for #SignalApp testing came, so used it to play w/ my #Librem5

Today
- Donut's bday! 🐱😍🎂
- fixed the blockparser
- meet w/ Umorpha
- put #OpenWrt on router for mom
- put new HDDs in the #Parabola build server (assuming they arrive)
- so many emails

Concerns
- idk

There is no #DailyStandup there is only sleep.

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- Mostly just napped
- My aluminum wire came so I spent some time re-doing the brim of my wizard hat

What I'm doing today:
- Ugg, overnight the fuzzer found another issue in the blockparser. Fixing.
- Rework the first part of the btrfs-rec rebuild-chunks algorithm

Blockers/concerns:
- none?

#DailyStandup

What I did yesterday:
- I thought I got the gi-docgen blockparser working correctly

What I'm doing today:
- Actually the fuzzer found some issues in the night; fixed them
- Proceeding to work on the inlineparser

Concerns/blockers:
- Low energy today. Tempted to just screw off and play with my new Flipper Zero? Or take a nap?

#DailyStandup Today was weird because sleep.

What I did Sat/Sun:
- Ordered another SIM card to more easily test this #SignalApp MMS issue
- #Parabola build server locked up again, idk why. But: 1. SMART errors; so new drives will be here Thursday 🤞 2. Fixed errors from hackers-update.service and shadow.service
- Worked on the gi-docgen parser

What I did today:
- Worked on the gi-docgen parser. Still fuzzing running, but it's looking like I've finally got the blockparser behaving correctly 🤞

No #dailystandup yesterday because I didn't sleep right and spent the day in a half-asleep haze.

But on Thursday I:
- Dealt with the #Parabola build server overheating
- Presented on Parabola at #Boulder #LUG
- Got a good log trace of the MMS bug in my fork of #SignalApp
- Ordered a Flipper Zero

Today I'm going to:
- Looks like the Parabola build server died because the OOM killer made some bad choices? Looking into that.
- Emails
- Try to wrap up the gi-docgen parser, and PR that into gotk4

#dailystandup

What I did yesterday:
- Fight with the Signal build system and Android app signing and dumb user-hostile bullshit
- Read docs on Android telephony

What I'm doing today:
- Work on LUG presentation, give LUG presentation

Blockers/concerns:
- My brain is garbage

#dailystandup

What I did yesterday:
- Flew back home from Indianapolis after #GenCon
- Started updating my fork of #SignalApp from v6.26 to v6.27

What I'm doing today:
- Track down a bug with MMS group messages in my fork of #SignalApp
- Sync with Flynn
- Prepare my presentation on #Parabola #GNU/ #LinuxLibre that I'm giving at the Boulder LUG tomorrow.

Blockers/Concerns:
- I hate Gradle so much