new entry: cffi-alpm: A New Hope

Signed-off-by: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>

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+Pyalpm has some annoyances to it, like leaking a lot of memory, and being a CPython module.  It has many times been suggested that it should be re-written using CFFI or something similar though, and tonight I’ve been pretending that I don’t have anything better to do, so I started playing with CFFI and libalpm a bit.
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+The result of my experimentations is available at `cffi-alpm <https://github.com/kyrias/cffi-alpm>`_, though it’s not particularly useful yet.  Right now it has a class that wraps `alpm_list_t` and implements the Python `iterator protocol <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0234/>`_ for it, and have written a small example that searches the local DB.  It’s not really much at all, but I do feel like I have a better feel of both CFFI and libalpm now, and might actually end up writing a complete pyalpm replacement.
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     "title": "New blog!",
     "date": "2016-11-12",
     "file": "new-blog",
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+    "tags": [
+      "blog"
+    ]
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   {
     "title": "Style",
     "date": "2016-11-15",
     "file": "style",
-    "tags": ["blog"]
+    "tags": [
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+  {
+    "title": "cffi-alpm: A New Hope",
+    "date": "2016-11-17",
+    "file": "cffi-alpm-a-new-hope",
+    "tags": [
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+      "libalpm"
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 ]