@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL

Speaking of vim… Which version of vim should I ship with GoNIX? 🤔 Vim or Neovim or something else?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de CEF turns out to be pretty easy. I had to write a bit of C and Go to bridge, but once that got going I was able to write it into my pure Go go-wayland wlui library for final rendering. The delegating the entire CEF part was a good idea though because it keeps all the complexity in a container Image, leaving me with just the Go + C stubs/interface and SHM/IPC parts.

So I decided to change tact a bit with GoNIX and instead of trying to build apure Go browser from scratch (which I kinda of half succeeded, in at least it was able to render most static ssr sites), I’ve instead decided to write a new browsered using the Chromium Embedded Framework, otherwise known as CEF. So now I have a fully working browser in GoNIX 🎉 – However since my goal is to keep GoNIX pretty lcean and mostly written in Go, I delegated the cef part(s) to an OCI container image and run that with GoNIX’s box (command-line container runtime). It works great 👍

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Yeah, it also requires you to fill our a form with some sensiable inputs. There are other measures I’ve put in place to thwart/discourage bots/spammers too.

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz The reason for my locking down my own instance here was purely because of spam and bots 😢

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Yeah No worries an welxome! Glad you didn’t find standing up your own stance too hard!

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh! You’re running Yarn.social’s yarnd? 😅 That’s why I was able to see your reply so quickly/easily ! Nice! And welcome! 🙏

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Nice! 👍

@bender@twtxt.net LOL 😂

👋 mbox.blue now support custom domains you can point at your ~/public_html or ~/.mbox/expose app/service. Enjoy! 😉

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com I don’t 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Does that mean they paid you 3x what it’s worth and you get teh product for free plus a bonus payout? 🤔 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Here you go 🤣 https://git.mills.io/prologic/gonix/src/branch/main/cmd/imgview/main.go

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I looked into swagimg. That’s the thing, The latest version pulls in fark’n C++ (geez fuck) and luajit. Anything else I’ve round for Wayland depdns on Rust (wtf?!) – So I built my own in Pure Go. It’s wonderful, so simple, only ~170 lines of Go 🤣

Hmmm are there really no decent Wayland (desktop) compatible image viewers that don’t drag in Mesa and all it’s hundreds of dependences or GCC and libgcc and it’s multi-hour long build time or Rust? geez

Behold! 😎 I present to you, GoNIX 🐧

QEMU Screenshot:

So I’ve been working on GoNIX the last few days… Which is derived from µLinux – At least it’s entire build process. GoNIX however has a 100% Go userland, including the init process, package and service management.

Now… As an experiment, because I was able to make much process on enhancing the build tools and package management, I decided to see if I could build a “Desktop” Gui of sorts…

I still wanted it to be fairly minimal and lightweight. So I went with wayland (of course) and labwc and yambar. So far I’m liking the result 👌 42 packages in the wayland-desktop meta port. Not too bad. Not sure if I can slim that down anymore… But trying to avoid Mesa/GL as that drags in far too much “cruft”.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de static sites are the best really 😅

Olisse · 2026-06-20 22:27 UTC
haihaihiii! mbox.blue is awesome ;)

So nice of the very few folks that have discovered mbox to say such nice things about my little experimental project and free service offering 😁

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Apologies not necessary 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de

What’s your motivation for running this, btw? 🤔

Basically, two things a) feeling generous for folks that either can’t afford or find it hard to have a little place to call home (webpage, feed, whatever) and b) a real opportunity to test some of the components that make it possible sshbox, which I know works well as it fronts my Gitea instance’s Git+SSH service and box, a container runtime I wrote a while ago, recently improved, hardened and polished.

Behold, I bring you (reincarnated) mbox.blue – A tiny shared linux server based on / around containers (my own implemtnation).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Gotta make the economy go “around” and keep public services in play 😅 Good luck! 🤞

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Why hear? I’ll just put it up at https://twtxt.app now shall I? It’s good enough IMO that it’s already working quite well. The challenging parts now is to figure out a good set of default publishing connectors to support? 🤔

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Yes really 🤣

Belhod! I present Swag – Build offline-first web apps in pure Go and HTML.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Just working on swag 😅 And….. Building an Offline-first Yarn/twtxt client that has no server requirements (_other than you need to publish your feed somewhere…)

Hmmmm

@apptester@twtxt.net Cool! 😎 My Offline-first Go/WASM + HTMX powered Yarn / Twtxt client is working 👌

@movq@www.uninformativ.de So Anubis does a whole lot more than I really wanted and it’s configuration is a lot more complicated. In my setup I basicaly just do this:

		pow @needs_pow {
			difficulty 18
			ttl 168h
			secret_env POW_SECRET
		}

In one of my site blocks. And the implementation itself is pretty simple too.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That video appears to be unavailable to me :/

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Got absolutely jack and sick of all the fucking useless bots, C&C and shit™ hitting my Git server tonight 🤬 So I sat down and built a lightweight version of Anubis, called caddy-pow. So now going forward, you’ll have to (sorry) have a HS-enabled browser to hit git.mills.io which will hopefully make most (if not all) bots just go the fuck away 🤦‍♂️ #Hostile #Web

Yup I see it!

2026-06-07T13:52:37-04:00	(#ggtk3vq) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt,http://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> That's a great effect! 👍

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Very nice 👍

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Oh don’t get my wrong, I totally empathize, but yeah 👍

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Yes, but is how we want to be behaving. We don’t like something so we go out of our way to be malicious and poison things? I get it though, the hypocrisy is very real here, with burning trees, eating up water supplies, and the massive amounts of energy going into this, but still, this is petulant behaviour and I don’t think it services any useful purpose other than rage and anger.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com I’m not sure this is very productive to be honest 🧐

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Those are stunning 😎 I’d leave the windows dirty too — clearly the birds approve of the current state of affairs 🤣

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com That DORA quote is 🤯 — and it perfectly explains why AI coding tools terrify me in certain contexts. Dropping Copilot into a codebase full of technical debt isn’t gonna fix the debt, it’s just gonna write more of it faster 🤣 Fred Brooks would be nodding his head right now 🙏

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Honestly I think you build the team before you need the PRs 🤔 Start with relationships — people who’ve been using your software, filing good bug reports, asking smart questions. Those are your future maintainers. The PR comes later as a formality, not a tryout 😅

(#vqzvmjq) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Those are stunning 😎 I’d leave the windows dirty too — clearly the birds approve of the current state of affairs 🤣

(#xbh2sbq) @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com That DORA quote is 🤯 — and it perfectly explains why AI coding tools terrify me in certain contexts. Dropping Copilot into a codebase full of technical debt isn’t gonna fix the debt, it’s just gonna write more of it faster 🤣 Fred Brooks would be nodding his head right now 🙏

(#vixabsa) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Honestly I think you build the team before you need the PRs 🤔 Start with relationships — people who’ve been using your software, filing good bug reports, asking smart questions. Those are your future maintainers. The PR comes later as a formality, not a tryout 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de One at a time, until you build up trust, coherence to make them a maintainer 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think I’ve been more-or-less maintaining my OSS projects this way for years hmmm 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net LOL 😂

Same here, but my own fault

Nobody ever does 🤣