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Links 2, a graphical browser I wanna build upon. And a quick look at how ELinks is doing.

February[²⁰26], Sunday 15.February[²⁰26], Monday 16. Shrimple 8 Comments

We all know the three: Lynx, Links 2, ELinks. And w3m, the thing that pioneered inline images. Of these, Links is also among Dillo and NetSurf as a graphical browser —

Unlike its Links pre-1 fork, ELinks, which never chose to follow the upstream on that one;

Nowadays, elinks.cz web site is defunct for a month now — but exclusively on GitHub, the community remains active. Once a fork, rkd77’s ELinks, once (until 2020) having to call itself felinks, is now the continuation. The INSTALL mentions Alternatively, instead of Meson: ./configure &&… …There is no ./configure.

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Simplistic reconciliation of mostly-append text files like Offpunk lists: draft involving Kahn’s algorithm

February[²⁰26], Monday 09. Shrimple No Comments

I have been thinking about managing my Offpunk list files that I might be modifying on either, or both, my netbook and some main laptop. Since this is mostly about new parts that might have gotten added, I didn’t want to introduce some full-blown version control to this. Instead, I figured that I could start ensuring the files end with a time-specific marker when was the file last appended before sync that would also be useful to the human…

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Distributed file version management in 15 minutes of Bash

February[²⁰26], Tuesday 03.February[²⁰26], Saturday 07. Shrimple No Comments

You don’t always need to have all the tools at your disposal, but you may want to have some way of checking in your file edits. CVS is too powerful and has a lot of unnecessary parts, while not being distributed. You may not need to keep everything in deltas. So why not just write…

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Bugfix for list URI for my Offpunk redirections implementation draft

January[²⁰26], Thursday 29.January[²⁰26], Friday 30. Shrimple 1 Comment

On top of Amending my Offpunk redirection implementation, I have now fixed the issue where list:/// would get turned into list:/ URIs when there would be a redirection rule for just a wildcard netloc, such as one that for any URL purges the utm_source tracking query parameter. That was resulting in user’s inability to list any list.

I have introduced an exception that requires redirections to be explicitly applicable only to list: URIs in case of list URIs.

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Amending my Offpunk redirection implementation

January[²⁰26], Sunday 25.January[²⁰26], Thursday 29. Shrimple 2 Comments

As it turned out the next afternoon, my code was buggy.

This is a sequel to the post Experimentally expanding Offpunk browser Part 1 (nightly) from yesterday.

The blocked domains were saving as redirection with destination URL interpreted as //BLOCK/, deleting redirections was broken because of the same CLI parsing issue, and it was still only possible to have one rule for one domain glob, no matter how specific through the criterions.

The only reason why -silent was working for them was because of this.

I am now hashing the entire criterion into the dict, and for that I ~~had to add frozendict dependency to the project because~~ good to write words sometimes, because I just turned that into a tuple.

More bugs found: especially that I didn’t really apply the specificity of the rules to BLOCK rules, and they were always acting on the netloc regardless. Now lemme just drop you the patches right below. First is a tiny patch for more predictable behavior of fragment templating, then the big one.

Update: I posted another bugfix post to this draft implementation of mine, see Bugfix for list URI for my Offpunk redirections implementation draft

Note: this post publishes the patches, but doesn’t diff any code nicely. These patch files are not exactly made for directly reading except for the commit message of the longer one, which I will maybe paste here too:

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Experimentally expanding Offpunk browser Part 1 (nightly)

January[²⁰26], Sunday 25.January[²⁰26], Thursday 29. Shrimple 2 Comments

https://offpunk.net ← that’s the original project that this might get upstreamed to in some parts

Note: since publication I have found numerous bugs in my implementation. Rewrites upcoming. I just can’t work silently without at least a blog post every day.

Update: now please apply the subsequent patches before trying out anything. The code here below was bad.
Here is the new post: Amending my Offpunk redirection implementation

What does my large patch bring? (a post-publish added summary)

So far, Offpunk only allows you to redirect from one netloc (usually host or host:port) to another. At that, it won’t match if the origin netloc had an explicit port number specified. I wanted a redirections engine that would allow me to redirect to a different port, on a different host, under a path and with some suffix — like .json.

I also wanted to eliminate the hardcoded redirects and domain blocks and put them into a user’s rc file. But that required adding them to user’s rc. I didn’t want to alter a user’s existing offpunkrc, so I came up with the idea to create a pre-rc for the user (later, only such that would already have their rc, as new users can just get the actual rc pre-filled and only get a pre-rc created if new defaults come from upstream).

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Category: Wild Software Writing

Links 2, a graphical browser I wanna build upon. And a quick look at how ELinks is doing.

Unlike its Links pre-1 fork, ELinks, which never chose to follow the upstream on that one;

Simplistic reconciliation of mostly-append text files like Offpunk lists: draft involving Kahn’s algorithm

Distributed file version management in 15 minutes of Bash

Bugfix for list URI for my Offpunk redirections implementation draft

Amending my Offpunk redirection implementation

Experimentally expanding Offpunk browser Part 1 (nightly)

What does my large patch bring? (a post-publish added summary)

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