2025-06-25

Been playing around with the nex:// protocol recently. It's an interesting concept as far as alt protocols go. The idea of having a simple text-first protocol for fetching data that eschews the complexities of other protocols, such as HTTP or even Gopher and Gemini, is kind of refreshing. I started to dabble with adding support for it in to Bombadillo but have not made a ton of progress yet. I have it fetching the content and displaying the raw text but still have some work to do on rendering pages properly and link following. Still, it's interesting and you should check it out sometime.

The best browser I've found for it so far is Gelim . Written in Go, it works very well and is similar to the client I was trying to write originally in Bash, using some of the existing bare-bones bash-only clients currently in existence.

If you're looking for content to browse on the nex:// protocol, check out Smolnet Proxy.