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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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News to Archive Redirector is a Firefox extension that automatically redirects article pages from various paywalled sites to archive.is. See readme.txt for more information. Author's Note: This extension takes a bunch of (mostly) mainstream state-controlled news sites and makes their weaponized propaganda (a war waged on 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 propagandized toxicity available for free - and are therefore not included.
License: Blue Oak License |
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The Multi-Server Finger Monitor. A simple little Finger server checker with the grandest of names! Checks 3 core servers for recent user activity in one glance. updated: 20 sep 2025 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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nview is a Bash wrapper that captures finger client output and displays it in NFO Viewer, including automated temp file cleanup and optional pipeline filtering. 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). Currently 9 pages are listed but I plan to add more in the future.
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: This was a proof of concept. 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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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. Author's Note: I've encountered many Markdown files containing binary characters. I also work with HTML 3.2 because of legacy systems, the smolnet and other reasons. This is a personal tool that has proven useful.
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. updated: 20 sep 2025 Author's Note: I spend time on legacy systems, especially DOSBox. Also a fan of the smolnet! I really needed an editor that wraps basic (old-school) HTML tags around highlighted text. Also great for pasting modern HTML and running a quick preview.
License: Blue Oak License
HTML App: Simple HTML 3.2 Editor |
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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. updated: 20 sep 2025 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. Author's Note: It does exactly what is says on the tin but I haven't really found a use for it. I just wanted to read random lines from a file and display them. Basically write a core script for doing this because I had some other ideas how the script could be used.
License: Blue Oak License
File: Quotes File
Script: quotes.py.txt |
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cdates is a simple terminal calendar that displays the current month with today's date highlighted. If a caldates file is found, it will also display up to 12 events on the right side (including events from the first week of next month). Days with events and the current day are marked with an '*'. updated: 16 sep 2025 Author's Note: I really wanted to do a calendar thingy one evening. It looks cute, in that beckoning ASCII way:-) I mostly use it without the caldates (events) file. It's a replacement for Linux's smaller 'cal' program when I want to quickly see an entire month.
License: Blue Oak License |
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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 ask for much back in the day and yet... we were so happy. License: CC0: No Rights Reserved Light: cpage437 Dark: cpage437 |