Notices by Andrew Nitrogenesis 🇺🇦 (nitrogenez@pl.m0e.space), page 2

I AM AN ADULT HUMAN BEING. I AM MATURE. I AM AN ADULT HUMAN BEING.

just noticed a bug in zig’s 0.13.0 std.http module. std.http.Server in finishReceivingHead() (I AM MATURE) fucks up and while parsing does the following:

imagine we have a request:

GET /index.html HTTP/1.1\n\n where \n\n is line ending and head ending.

the std.http.Server.Request.Head.parse() fucks the parsing part up. first it looks up the index of a first space: std.mem.indexOf(...), making a slice of the read buffer, which gives us a slice = GET. then, it goes ahead and parses the target, in this case /index.html. but then the most interesting thing happens.

in the code the parse() function gets the index of the last space std.mem.lastIndexOf(...), makes it a version_start, and slices the read buffer to the end of the line. how? well, it only uses the atrocious windows line endings: ‘\r\n’. of course, it’s not a bug if it follows the spec, but fuck me, i wasted too much time debugging this shit. is it really that personal to add support for linux line endings? god fucking damn it.

also “be a pretty boy”.

i am a 30 year old man working as a fucking barista and doing low level stuff. i have a beard, i have long hair, and have hairy legs. do i qualify as a pretty boy or do i break the rules?

learning lldb right now btw. i heard it’s better than gdb, so decided to give it a shot. i love the fact that they have command aliases for everything so it appears to be like in gdb.

so, after half a year, here are my thoughts on helix editor that nobody cares about. well, might help someone that wants to switch.

helix is an actual plug & play. you install it, you run it, and you’re done. you have search, macros, find & replace, you have global search, multi-cursor, etc. everything else is customized through the config. the language support is actually fascinating, as i can open up any file and helix would actually try and run an associated language server for that language. e g clangd for C and C++, zls for zig, etc. this is actually really compelling to me as a neovim user, as no setup is needed, and no plugins like telescope is necessary. helix has nice keybinds, commands, to select a file you can use a telescope-like menu, which is really good.

for now helix is my new editor of choice, with it i actually get shit done. in neovim i had a problem where indentation would fail for some reason and not place spaces where needed. there’s no issue with that in helix. and, well, helix is more lightweight, which is why i can use it on a server. it doesn’t require any dependencies, and is just one command to install.

so long, neovim. come back when you get a fucking ‘mkdir -p’ wrapper out of the box.