CONTRIBUTING.md: add link to checkpatch.pl

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 Let's try to stick to sircmpwn's [coding style]
 
+If you're not used to it, you can use [checkpatch.pl] to run a few simple formatting checks.
+
 And write [commit messages] like so, keeping the top line to this sort of syntax:
 
 ```
@@ -10,3 +12,5 @@ cursor: add special feature
 
 [coding style]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/cstyle
 [commit messages]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#commit-messages 
+[checkpatch.pl]: https://github.com/johanmalm/checkpatch.pl
+