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Browsh and Carbonyl, the return of the terminal browser

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

I can’t believe I haven’t made a post about  Browsh,

a fully-modern text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs.

Browsh is available as a single static binary on all major platforms. The only dependency is a recent 57+ version of Firefox.

Someone had to make a similar feat using Chromium, creating carbonyl, Chromium running inside your terminal

Carbonyl is a Chromium based browser built to run in a terminal. Read the blog post.

It supports pretty much all Web APIs including WebGL, WebGPU, audio and video playback, animations, etc..

It’s snappy, starts in less than a second, runs at 60 FPS, and idles at 0% CPU usage. It does not require a window server (i.e. works in a safe-mode console), and even runs through SSH.

Carbonyl originally started as html2svg and is now the runtime behind it.

Uniform eXchange Format (uxf)

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Uniform eXchange Format (uxf) is a plain text human readable optionally typed storage format that supports custom types. It may serve as a convenient alternative to csv, ini, json, sqlite, toml, xml, or yaml.

https://github.com/mark-summerfield/uxf

Looks smart and interesting!

Expecially this part:

Implmenting a UXF pretty printer whould be doable by a CS major as a final year project. Implementing a UXF parser—without support for imports, string concatenation, or aliases—should be doable by a CS major as a big final year project.