feat: initial fire-and-forget telemetry client

Anonymous OSS usage telemetry library with zero third-party deps.

- Send(project, version): fire-and-forget POST to oss.raczylo.com/v1/ping
- Disable() and Wait(timeout) helpers
- Disable via DO_NOT_TRACK, OSS_TELEMETRY_DISABLED, or per-project env
- Failproof: never blocks, never panics, never returns errors
- Hand-written JSON (no encoding/json) and byte-loop validators (no regexp)
- golangci-lint v2 clean, all tests pass with -race

README.md

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+# oss-telemetry
+
+A tiny Go client that fires one anonymous "this binary started" ping at a
+central ingest endpoint. Designed to be embedded in your own open-source
+projects so you can see approximate adoption and version spread without
+collecting anything that could identify a user.
+
+This is the **client library only**. The ingest endpoint, server-side
+deduplication, rate limiting, and metrics are out of scope here.
+
+## What it sends
+
+A single HTTP `POST` per call to `Send`:
+
+```json
+{
+  "project": "my-tool",
+  "version": "1.2.3",
+  "ts": 1747782200
+}
+```
+
+No identifiers, no IP, no machine info, no user data. The server dedupes
+incoming requests; the client just fires and forgets.
+
+## Failproof by design
+
+- Never blocks the caller — work runs in a goroutine.
+- Never panics — the goroutine recovers internally.
+- Never returns errors — bad input and network failures are silently dropped.
+- Never retries, never persists state, never reads back.
+- 2-second hard timeout on every request.
+- Zero third-party dependencies (Go stdlib only).
+
+The endpoint is hardcoded and not overridable from consuming code, by design.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+go get github.com/lukaszraczylo/oss-telemetry
+```
+
+Requires Go 1.22+.
+
+## Usage
+
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+    "time"
+
+    telemetry "github.com/lukaszraczylo/oss-telemetry"
+)
+
+const version = "1.2.3"
+
+func main() {
+    telemetry.Send("my-tool", version)
+
+    // ... your program runs ...
+
+    // Only needed for short-lived CLIs that may exit before the goroutine
+    // finishes its POST. Long-running services do not need this.
+    telemetry.Wait(2 * time.Second)
+}
+```
+
+Call `Send` once at boot. Calling it more often just sends more pings; the
+server deduplicates.
+
+## How users disable telemetry
+
+Any one of these turns it off:
+
+| Mechanism                                | How                                                              |
+| ---------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| Universal opt-out                        | `DO_NOT_TRACK=1`                                                 |
+| Library-wide opt-out                     | `OSS_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1`                                       |
+| Project-specific opt-out                 | `<UPPER_PROJECT>_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1`                            |
+| Programmatic (e.g. behind a `--no-telemetry` flag) | `telemetry.Disable()` before the first `Send`          |
+
+Project-specific env var derivation: uppercase the project name and replace
+`-` with `_`. For `my-tool` the variable is `MY_TOOL_DISABLE_TELEMETRY`.
+
+Truthy values: `1`, `true`, `yes`, `on` (case-insensitive). Anything else is
+treated as "not set".
+
+## Validation rules (silently dropped if violated)
+
+- `project`: matches `^[a-z0-9-]+$`, length 1–64.
+- `version`: matches `^[A-Za-z0-9.+_-]+$`, length 1–32.
+
+Bad input is a no-op — the library never logs, never errors, never crashes.
+
+## API
+
+```go
+// Fire a single ping in the background. Returns immediately.
+func Send(project, version string)
+
+// Suppress all subsequent Send calls in this process. Idempotent.
+func Disable()
+
+// Block until in-flight pings complete or timeout elapses, whichever first.
+// Useful for short-lived CLI processes.
+func Wait(timeout time.Duration)
+```
+
+## Testing
+
+```bash
+go test -race ./...
+```
+
+## License
+
+Pick one before publishing. None bundled.