[ANN] bollux, a bash gemini browser

Case Duckworth acdw at acdw.net
Tue May 26 04:18:28 BST 2020


Well, it took me a little longer than a weekend but I got it done!

I'm proud to announce the release of *bollux*, a Gemini browser written
in bash:

https://git.sr.ht/~acdw/bollux
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~acdw/bollux (just the README)

It requires stuff most Linux users should have, like gawk
(possibly could use awk), dd, a recent version of bash, etc.

As of this release, bollux can
- navigate to gemini urls
- display text/* documents, and prettify text/gemini ones
- download other mimetypes

I still want to implement history, bookmarks, and the other
ease-of-life improvements that make a browser worth using. But I also
really wanted to send a [ANN] email tonight, so here we are.

Let me know what you think!

-- 
Best,
Case
acdw.net | breadpunk.club
he/him


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