From 59b90e52a75e4b945b5afe79721e191d52ee6cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lxf Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 21:20:32 -0400 Subject: added some src essays and wired essay --- src/console-based-web-browsing-w3m.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++ src/w3m-guide.txt | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/console-based-web-browsing-w3m.txt create mode 100644 src/w3m-guide.txt (limited to 'src') diff --git a/src/console-based-web-browsing-w3m.txt b/src/console-based-web-browsing-w3m.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f548555 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/console-based-web-browsing-w3m.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Console-Based Web Browsing With W3M + +I've been browsing the web with a 27-year-old, text-only browser for a couple of months now and it has made me like the web again. I don't ever want to go back to a graphical browser. + +The web is a steaming pile of JavaShit though, so I do from time to time have to open pages in a graphical browser. But I much prefer w3m and I always start there now. If the page I'm after works, I am happy, if it doesn’t I get to decide: begrudgingly open it in a graphical browser or just skip it. It’s remarkable how often the second option is the one I chose. It’s made me question what all I do on the web, most of it turns out to be unimportant and unnecessary. + +But it isn't the lack of JavaScript that makes browsing with w3m great. That does help clear up clutter, but it's really an entirely different experience that, the more I use it, the more I love it. + +With w3m I find myself focused on a single task in a way that I am not in Vivaldi. With w3m I get the information I want faster. I can open an entire rendered page in Vim with a single keystroke, and then I can copy and paste things to my notes or just save the whole page as text. When I'm done I quit and move on to something different. Opening w3m is so fast I don't keep it open. I use it when I need it and then I close it. + +This, I've come to think, is the key to eliminating distractions, staying focused and getting actual work done: close the browser when you don't need it. You don't think of an open web browser as multitasking, but it is and that's a recipe for distraction. Unitasking is the way forward most of the time, when you're done with the page, close the browser. + +This is very cumbersome with a graphical browser which has to boot up a ton of stuff and then load all those open tabs you have and it ends up taking so long enough that only a crazy person would close it when they were done with a single task. It'd be like shutting off your laptop every time you closed the lid. + +With w3m though this is exactly what I do and I swear I waste less time because of it. Often I even close out the terminal window that it was in because foot is pretty speedy too. Then I find myself staring at my desktop, which happens to be a somber image I took a long time ago in the swamps of Florida, and it always makes me want to close my laptop and go outside, which is why I use it as a desktop. + +What does this have to do with w3m? Very little I suppose, other than to say, if you're finding yourself wasting time browsing the internet for hours, try using w3m, you might like it, and I can almost garantee you'll save yourself some time that you'd otherwise waste on pointless internet things. Go make something instead. Or give someone a hug or a high five. diff --git a/src/w3m-guide.txt b/src/w3m-guide.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf46b14 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/w3m-guide.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +ah the irony of the number of websites that want to tell you how to use w3m, but don't themselves load in w3m because they are totally JS dependant. + +How do you open a link in a new tab? meh, you don't really need to, just hit "s" for the buffer selection window which has your whole browsing history. + +okay back is shift-b. s to list buffers. esc-e to edit, that seems to be the basics. + +Need to figure out how to save current buffers to file + +you can bookmark with esc-a to add esc b to view -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2