diff --git a/content/post/2025/06/tui-challenge:-day-3.md b/content/post/2025/06/tui-challenge:-day-3.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0d7cf105 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/2025/06/tui-challenge:-day-3.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +date: "2025-06-10T04:00:00-07:00" +title: "TUI Challenge: Day 3" +tags: ["cli","tui"] +categories: ["personal","sa"] +#image: "" +series: ["tuichallenge"] +summary: "A Web of Trouble" +--- + +Day 3 of the TUI Challenge is about browsing the web in the terminal. I use to use browsers like +[lynx](https://lynx.invisible-island.net) or [elinks](http://elinks.or.cz) back in the early days of the web when I had +a slow connection like dial-up or a wireless modem from the late 1990's. Back then, web sites were much simpler than +today. An advance web site might have tables! So, in those days, a text browser worked well. But, how about now in the +era of Web 2.0 or even Web 3.0? + +The challenge today is to use a text browser to visit two web sites and summarize them. And then, things got hard. + +I was actually trying to use lynx for my daily web usage, and I was looking up how to configure +[newsboat](https://newsboat.org) so I can forward an article via email now and later to add to my task tracker. + +The two sites I that I was trying to find the answer on I was trying to look at was [reddit](https://www.reddit.com) and +[github](https://github.com) which gave problems. I think the 'new' Reddit has a lot of JavaScript which these two text +browsers do not support. My solution was to use [old.reddit.com](https://old.reddut.com) which is the classical +interface which is closer to Web 1.0. + +GitHub was all but useless in my text browsers. It was too hard to get past all the items normally hidden behind js +menus. And, after a few page views, it stopped showing me anything from the repos I was trying to visit. I am not sure +if the site thought I was an AI scraper and just stopped showing me anything or if there was something else. + +In the end, I was able to use old Reddit, Google Groups, and the newsboat web site to figure out what I wanted to do: + +``` +bind m article,articlelist pipe-to "neomutt -s\"RSS Article\" me@example.com" -- "Email article" +``` + +## Daily totals +Score time! [Yesterday](/post/2025/06/tui-challenge-day-2/) left us with 55 points. The challenge of doing research on +at least two site and summarizing it is worth 20 points. In the bonus points include 5 for filling out a form which I +did many times on my search engine page, which gives me 25 points for the day, and a running total of 80 points.