# freeqsay

Cowsay with your FreeqWorld face. Written in Nim — a port of the
[Clojure/Jolt implementation](https://gitlab.com/nandithebull/freeqsay), which
is itself a port of the original TypeScript.

```bash
freeqsay <handle> <message>
```

Resolves a Bluesky handle → DID, derives the deterministic `avatar-v1` character,
and prints a cowsay balloon above truecolor ANSI art.

## Usage

```bash
freeqsay jay.bsky.team hello from the timeline
freeqsay @pfrazee.com "ships free software"
echo "piped in" | freeqsay jay.bsky.team

# wrap width, thought bubble, scale
freeqsay someone.bsky.social -W 20 short lines
freeqsay jay.bsky.team --think hmm
freeqsay jay.bsky.team --scale 3 big face says hi

# raw DID (no network)
freeqsay did:plc:ewvi7nmzuoqusbcablsm7c4h offline ok
```

Without a built binary, run it straight from the source tree:

```bash
nim r -d:ssl src/freeqsay.nim jay.bsky.team hello world
```

## Library

```nim
import freeqsay

echo freeqsay("jay.bsky.team", "hello").output
```

Modules: `freeqsay/say` (balloon + face), `freeqsay/avatar` (traits and the
16×24 sprite), `freeqsay/ansi` (truecolor half-block rendering), `freeqsay/png`
(RGBA → PNG), `freeqsay/resolve` (handle → DID), `freeqsay/balloon`,
`freeqsay/sha256` (SHA-256 / HMAC / HKDF). Importing `freeqsay` re-exports all
of them.

## Development

```bash
just build                    # optimized binary → ./freeqsay
just static                   # fully static binary → ./freeqsay-static
just test                     # test suite
just run <handle> <message>   # run from source, no build
just shot <handle> <message>  # gapless termshot png
just --list                   # everything else
```

`just static` produces a binary with no dynamic dependencies at all — musl
libc and OpenSSL linked in, nothing dlopen'd — so it runs on any Linux. It
builds through [nimstatic](https://rickub.com/nandi/nimstatic), pinned in
`tools/nimstatic` as a [DotSlash](https://dotslash-cli.com) file: the first run
fetches that exact build, checks its hash and caches it, and the URL names a
commit so it cannot move. A static binary carries no CA store, so set
`SSL_CERT_FILE` when resolving handles on a host without one at the default
path.

`nimble build` and `nimble test` work too. `-d:ssl` is set in `config.nims`,
since handle resolution goes over HTTPS through the stdlib client.

Everything but the HTTP call and JSON parsing is pure Nim with no dependencies:
SHA-256, HMAC and HKDF live in `freeqsay/sha256`, and the PNG encoder writes
stored deflate blocks.

## How it works

```
handle  →  resolveHandle  →  did
did     →  HKDF-SHA256(avatar-v1)  →  traits  →  16×24 sprite  →  ANSI
message →  cowsay balloon
```

`fixtures/avatar-conformance.json` pins the cross-implementation contract:
canonical seed, traits, and a sprite hash over all four facings. The suite
replays it, so this port derives byte-identical characters to the Clojure and
TypeScript implementations — including the sfc32 PRNG, reproduced on `uint32`
lanes so trait selection matches the JavaScript original bit for bit.