3 years ago, as I just had created Offpunk, I started to implement what would become ansicat : a way to render HTML (or any format) in your terminal
Besides a lot of technical learning, the biggest lesson was probably how bad people are at writing texts and abusing any format.
https://ploum.net/2022-03-24-ansi_html.html
See the results here:
https://offpunk.net/install.html
#offpunk #gemini #terminal #ansi #html #smolnet #cli #retroploum
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