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textnet is a Python-based finger client supporting additional text-only
protocols. Features smart wrapping, HTML rendering and quick script editing. Author's Note: This is the terminal-based finger client I use daily. There are lots more in the fingerverse file - from full-blown GUIs to very cool ways using netcat, telnet or even email!
License: Blue Oak License
Doc: HTML Documentation
Script: textnet.txt |
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The Multi-Server Finger Monitor. A simple little Finger server checker. Checks 3 core servers for recent user activity in one glance. Author's Note: This simple little thing is probably my most used finger utility. So useful for checking in on the core servers running finger. See the screenshot below for a sample output.
License: Blue Oak License Script: fm.txt Screenshot: fm.png |
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An in-house ASCII Template that I use to post on happynetbox.com. I have fun adding a little ASCII flair to the posts there. This htmlApp works similarly to cowsay and boxes (but uses only a single template). It takes data and automatically inserts it into an ASCII Template.
Author's Note: It's in-house - so... maybe it could look nicer (I think it looks perfect:-) but it gets the job done for me. I plan on adding another template/htmlApp (for example: this one is next). Others may follow after that.
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nview is a Bash wrapper that captures finger client output and displays it in NFO Viewer. Features include a CLIENT_NAME variable (currently set to 'finger'), automated temporary file cleanup and a user-friendly help section. Author's Note: I enjoy reading .plan files with textnet from the terminal but I go through phases where I route everything through 'NFO Viewer'. Requires both NFO Viewer and this script. The "install" is simple. The rewards...? see the screenshots below.
License: Blue Oak License Script: nview.txt Screenshots: Light, Dark |
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sv (Spartan Viewer) is a Python CLI tool that fetches and renders single spartan:// protocol gemtext content or local .gmi files with ANSI-styled formatting, smart word-wrapping, and redirect support for terminal viewing. Author's Note: This standalone script requires the user to enter "sv {URL}" which may be an issue for some. The sbl file below (a companion bookmark/launcher to sv) fixes that. It links to some great sites on spartan in an easy to access way.
License: Blue Oak License Script: sv.txt Screenshots: Rendered Page, Help |
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sbl (Spartan Bookmark Launcher) is a companion script to sv (Spartan Viewer) above. Running 'sbl' will launch URLs embedded in the script as: "sv {URL} | less -R". Author's Note: I use this to easily visit core spartan sites and great ascii art pages available using the spartan:// protocol. Requires sv (above) in order to retrieve and render the pages (it's just a single, portable script like this one). 12 pages are currently listed and it's easy to add your own (sbl -edit).
License: Blue Oak License Script: sbl.txt Screenshots: Main Screen, Help |
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bfinger is a bash-based Finger client (RFC 1288) using /dev/tcp for socket connections to query remote Finger servers, with full 8-bit character and ASCII art support. Author's Note: Works great and it's just a few lines of Linux compatible code (when you remove the comments/help section). I was using this daily until I finished work on textnet.
License: Blue Oak License Script: bfinger.txt |
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get-news is an in-house two-line script written to render and reformat the output of a finger account that uses github actions to auto-create a news site. This script is specific to the account: "finger bot@happynetbox.com" and requires textnet to function (above). Other ways to render and make the links clickable are via lynx, email (see fingerverse), nview (on this page) and portal.mozz.us.
License: n/a
Screenshot: get-news.png script: get-news.txt |
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Binary Markdown Killer does two things: (1) it strips out all binary (word-processing) characters from a Markdown file, converting them to their 7-bit ASCII counterparts and (2) it converts Markdown into HTML 3.2. The resulting HTML is available in its own Text Area window. Optionally, you can copy the rendered 7-bit ASCII text (sans HTML tags) from the [Preview] tab.
License: Blue Oak License
HTML App: Binary Markdown Killer |
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Simple HTML 3.2 Editor: Blast from the past! A lightweight, browser-based HTML editor for classic HTML 3.2 tags. Highlight text and select a tag from the dropdown to wrap it - or insert tags and entities at the cursor position. Includes self-closing tags, HTML entities ( , <, >, &) and a [Preview] button to render the HTML in a new tab.
License: Blue Oak License
HTML App: Simple HTML 3.2 Editor |
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News to Archive Redirector is a Firefox extension that automatically redirects article pages from various paywalled sites to archive.is. Please see readme.txt for important information about the 22sep2025 release. Author's Note: This extension takes a bunch of (mostly) mainstream state-controlled news sites and makes their weaponized propaganda (a war waged against the American public) available to the rest of us. These are the sites charging for this service. Many other mainstream news sites, like Fox "News", make their state-approved, toxic radicalization of the American people available for free - and are therefore not included.
License: Blue Oak License |
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A spoiler tag written using CSS and Javascript. The link leads to an HTML presentation page with embedded documentation, samples and the two pieces of CSS/JS that make this work. Author's Note: I was looking around for a spoiler tag that ticked all the features I wanted and couldn't find one.
License: Blue Oak License
HTML App: Spoiler-Tag.html |
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A faithful revival of the 1995 DOS classic, texrep keeps file search-and-replace gloriously simple - just feed it old:new pairs and a filename. Example: texrep apple:orange hello:goodbye file.txt (outputs file.NN.txt with changes).
License: Blue Oak License |
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quotes is a lightweight cross-platform Python-based random quote generator. Both the script (quotes) and a quotes file (quotes.txt) are needed.
License: Blue Oak License
File: Quotes File
Script: quotes.py.txt |
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Third-party/tweak: Text Calendar is a really nice looking (mostly ASCII) 12-month calendar. It was not created by me. It's from Anastasios Gogos. I made only two tweaks: (1) the weeks now run from Sun-Sat and (2) edited the footer.
Original License: MIT
Original Author: github
HTML App: Text Calendar |
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codepage437 is a UTF-8 friendly version of the original code page for DOS. Includes conversion information (linux) to make it compatible with code pages used on other operating systems. Author's Note: I didn't know where to put this and this page seemed like the current best fit. We had 256 characters and 640 kilobytes of memory in our entire universe. We didn't have much back in the day and yet... quite a lot was done with it. License: CC0: No Rights Reserved Light: cpage437 Dark: cpage437 |