08 Sep 2026: GET together is a clever, minimalist social network where the joke is in the name - "GET together" - because you create posts using HTTP GET requests instead of the usual POST method.
post2get is a command-line script for posting to the site, while getfeed (and getfeed-color) display the newest posts directly in your terminal. This is the site's current feed.
The files are available in the socials section of the Free Apps page.02 Sep 2026: Updated plancat (for plan.cat) and added planup (for happynetbox.com) to the Finger section of the Free Apps page.
Both scripts update .plan files from the command-line. So much fun!
26 Aug 2026: planup is a happynetbox script that automates posting to your account via the command line. The script retrieves your current plan file, loads it into your editor of choice, and uploads the updated content after you save and exit the editor.
I've been using the script since about 21 Aug 2026 without issue. UPDATE (02sep2026): It fully supports 8-bit uploads/special characters.
Although the script is working perfectly, it's still unsupported software by happynetbox (backup your content). I've commented it heavily because it includes a few workarounds in order to give it the right amount of polish (using sed to clean up server output, for example).
Special thanks to Bboysoul!
This script was developed based on the methods described in "Introduction Finger" (20 Aug 2026) by bboysoul: https://www.bboy.app/2026/08/20/introduction-finger
planup is available here. I'll add an entry in Free Apps soon.
Usage: Save the script, make it executable, edit the config section at the top to set your USERNAME, PASSWORD and EDITOR.
25 Aug 2026: smarks (Smart Marks) is a python script that takes a text file (demo.txt) and creates a single portable html page with bookmarks, tags and search (demo.html).
The script is useful for creating a page for general (private) bookmarks, bookmarks focusing on a specific topic (linux apps, for example), shareable online bookmark pages (with RSS) and even a local intranet of links (file:/// supported).
The script is available at the Free Apps page
21 Aug 2026: One of the comments from Andros Fenollosa's recent article on finger was this:
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Haha... looks like I gotta get finger.farm up and running again... :)
Thx for the mention blogger! https://github.com/jonroig/finger.farm |
While doubtful, it would be amazing to see Finger Farm return. It was one of the three core servers that were part of the Finger Revival. If I recall correctly, it's been down since very late/2023.
.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | https://640kb.neocities.org/fingerverse | :-----------------------------------------------------------------------------: | 19 Aug 2026 | | | | - New service: finger help@crossed-fingers.andros.dev | | The fingerverse has its own search engine! | | Searchable index of the contents of all added .plan files. | | | | - New service: On this Date Calendar: finger://flanigan.us/calendar | | | | - New personal domains added. | | | | - Added the finger addresses for all developers I could find (into each | | of their respective client sections) | :-----------------------------------------------------------------------------: | General News | | | | - Lookit (the world's first browser for the Finger protocol) is seeing new | | updates, including a home/start page, bookmarking. Portable, stable. | | https://github.com/jonathandeamer/lookit | | | | - Rogallo, and the supporting framework, has turned into a feature-rich, | | full-fledged smolnet solution for the terminal. Immersive updates: | | https://blog.davep.org/feed.xml | '-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
12 Aug 2026
Watched Spider-man: Brand New Day yesterday. Felt good to watch a superhero film with a solid-enough script and well-written characters. The current ~8 rating is about right.
11 Aug 2026: I've replaced the previous rot script (uploaded 05 August) with cypher - a more versatile text transformation tool. It still includes the ROT13/18/47 transformations but now adds reverse and binary conversion.
It also lets users build their own custom substitution cipher. Here's the default mapping, which is easily reconfigured.
In the Privacy & Security section of the FreeApps page.
pymarks renamed to smarks (see: 25 Aug 2026).
09 Aug 2026: Added a configuration option to pm (pymarks) that allows splitting the tag list based on any letter. This makes it easy to balance the two tag columns. Other customizations are now better documented in the script.
# ====================================================== # CONFIGURATION # ====================================================== # TAG COLUMNS # ----------- # Letters A through SPLIT_LETTER go in the left column. # All letters after SPLIT_LETTER go in the right column. # # Example: # SPLIT_LETTER = 'K' # Left: A-K, Right: L-Z # SPLIT_LETTER = 'K' # ======================================================
Updated the pymarks.txt documentation.
pymarks renamed to smarks (see: 25 Aug 2026).
07 Aug 2026: I've had pm (pymarks) - a Python script that generates a static HTML bookmark page - sitting around for about 2 1/2 months. During that time, I kept adding personal bookmarks (over 200), but the HTML page itself was becoming difficult to use because it needed improved usability features.
This is what it looked like when I last posted about its early stages on 21 May 2026. This is what it looks like now - a demo page with sample bookmarks from demo.txt.
The two key improvements: splitting the tag list across two columns (A-L and M-Z) and adding instant search with AND logic (all search terms must appear in the title, description or tags). These were the two things the page always needed in order to be useful. Details in (the nearly completed) document file: pymarks.txt.
I'm hoping to post the final script, docs and samples to the FreeApps page soon.
* rot is no longer available. Replaced with cypher.
05 Aug 2026: rot is a fun little Python script for encoding and decoding text using the ROT13, ROT18 and ROT47 ciphers. It supports files and stdin. Examples:
rot -r13 file.txt > out.txt
finger user@domain.com | rot -r18
echo "dir/file.txt" | nc nightfall.city 1900 | rot -r47
28 Jul 2026: After a 12 year wait, the Axanar trilogy continues! In 2015, Paramount and CBS sued Axanar because part 1 of their trilogy (Prelude to Axanar) was "too good". This lawsuit was what eventually led to Paramount issuing the infamous 'fan film guidelines'.
It created a chilling effect, so much so that, on my end, I tracked down and downloaded every fan film I could find just to be sure they weren't lost forever. It turns out it wasn't necessary? (maybe... I don't know how many of those original sites still exist. I should check...)
22 Jul 2026: Update - plancat. All special and extended characters now upload properly - brackets, symbols, box-drawing characters and ASCII art spacing are fully supported (see echo@plan.cat).
21 Jul 2026: There are a few ways to do Markdown over the Finger protocol. I like chawan now because it has all the tools built in (screenshot):
chawan -T text/markdown finger://markdown@happynetbox.comchawan -T text/markdown finger://happynetbox.com/markdownfinger markdown@happynetbox.com | chawan -T text/markdownPreviously I was converting the Markdown into HTML using Pandoc, and passing it off to Lynx & w3m (which also works well):
finger markdown@happynetbox.com | pandoc -s -f markdown -t html | lynx -stdinfinger markdown@happynetbox.com | pandoc -s -f markdown -t html | w3m -T text/html
Chawan is still in beta - it has done an incredible job on tables but had some other issues with processing other elements in the MD when it's being streamed remotely (I had to remove the problem areas from the file, for now - keeping mostly tables). It had no such problems rendering all the original MD locally.
Still, I'm finding that it does a great job already on so many of the protocols it supports (HTML, Gemini, Gopher, Spartan, Finger and others) - that I created a smolnet page with this browser (and Dillo) in mind.
17 Jul 2026: Added the following section to the Fingerverse file:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Some key dates chronicling finger's revival, culminating in the creation | | of three free hosting services dedicated to the finger protocol. | | | | Unofficial. A fascinating look at a little bit of niche history. | | | | * 02 Jan 2019: We're bringin' finger back! | | * 08 Jan 2019: Finger Fever! | | * 21 Sep 2019: portal.mozz.us | | * 30 Apr 2020: mozz.us: Finger | | * 14 Aug 2020: plan.cat | | * 25 Jan 2021: finger.farm | | * 24 Apr 2021: happynetbox.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Trinity: July 16, 1945
On this date, the United States detonated the first nuclear weapon in human history. It was described as a weapon of almost incomprehensible force.
After witnessing the apocalyptic destruction, knowing what they had just created... the United States used two more nuclear bombs on cities full of civilians.
They congratulated themselves, they celebrated. To this day, they justify the horror.
Over 200,000 murdered. More than 90% were civilians. Women, children, the elderly. Eight decades later, the United States is the main reason the horrors of a genocide exist in our modern world. An unholy union with the region's treacherous apartheid terror state.
100s of thousands of civilians murdered. More women, children. Millions displaced, sick and starving.
Trinity was the name they gave the test explosion. It was a name tied to religious imagery. Poems he would say.
The symbol of The Father, The Son, The Holy Ghost... twisted and made obscene. A mockery of faith and life itself.
On the blood and suffering of the innocent, a nation was rebuilt - stripped of its soul, its humanity. That is the legacy of Trinity.
14 Jul 2026: Updated the smolnet page with lots of Gemini-specific links. On my next pass, I'll focus on Gopher links (update, 16jul: added the gopher links I had collected. Need to still work on organization). The page is still a work in progress (links & organization) but keeping it online helps me access Gemini and Gopher more frequently.
It's also a Chawan & Dillo page because of each browser's ability to access HTTPS directly and render HTML well (see the Chawan screenshot, for example).
There are many great Gemini/Gopher browsers but few that also support HTTPS/HTML. Kristall and Alhena are the only other smolnet browsers that I'm aware of that also support HTTPS but they don't render HTML as well.
Eventually, I think, the smolnet page will contain only Gemini and Gopher links - served, ironically, over HTTPS in HTML. The idea is to showcase how browsers like Chawan and Dillo handle multiprotocols seamlessly. It also gives me more of a reason to use them regularly - both of which are excellent browsers that are under active development.
12 Jul 2026: Updated the Spartan protocol page with new links, deletions, general edits. I had a collection of things I had been meaning to get to for a while. Happy with the final results.