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