JeanG3nie's Blog
Introducing Oxterm
Zterm has been one of my larger projects and by my reckoning fairly successful in it's original goals. I've enjoyed the project immensely, and learned a great deal along the way. However, writing an end user application in a pre-1.0 language while simultaneously working on the language bindings for the toolkit being used has presented some challenges, to say the least.
Read More -> 2022-06-30T22:28:14ZRewriting Gemview's Gemtext Parser Part 2
In my last [post](../rewriting-gemtext-parser) I described the reasons behind and implementation of the new Gemtext parser for GemView. In the summary, I pointed out a few areas of "low hanging fruit" which might make for some nice improvements over both the old parser and the new in it's then state.
Read More -> 2022-05-20T22:50:23ZRewriting Gemview's Gemtext Parser
When I first began the GemView project, I had chosen to use an external crate to handle most gemini related tasks, such as connecting to the server, retreiving documents, and parsing gemtext. GemView would only really have to handle rendering the parsed GemText. Or so I thought.
Read More -> 2022-05-19T18:43:42ZApril Update
I've been quite busy code wise lately but haven't made time to post anything. Almost all of the recent work has been on Rust projects, and while I haven't abandoned Zterm, I'm becoming more and more drawn to the Rust ecosystem. It's just that good.
Read More -> 2022-04-12T03:45:43ZHandling Unsupported Protocols in Gemview
[GemView](https://codeberg.org/jeang3nie/gemview) is meant to be a generic and reusable Gemini browser widget, while [Eva](https://codeberg.org/jeang3nie/eva) is the browser built to leverage it. GemView can already handle surfing around geminispace using the gemini protocol, but you never really know what types of links are going to be found in Geminispace.
Read More -> 2022-02-18T18:42:42Z