Newsletter #6

By John Mercouris

Hello hackers!

Welcome to our seventh newsletter :-)

New features for you:

• Checkboxes are now in the prompt buffer. Mark things with the mouse. Gasp!
• Install Nyxt easily on Linux via Flatpak + Flathub.
• Search privately with our integrated Searx instance. More here: https://nyxt-browser.com/article/searxng.org
• New themes: https://nyxt-browser.com/extension/invader.org
• Improved PDF support.
• There's now a Quick-start tutorial for beginners.
• We've improved dark mode for darkening arbitrary web pages.

As always we are only glazing the surface, for the full list please see the changelog.

New articles:

Extension usage in primates

https://nyxt-browser.com/article/extension-survey-results.org

The role of keyboard design in advanced shell programs

https://nyxt-browser.com/article/keyboard.org

Why not Elisp to build Nyxt?

https://nyxt-browser.com/article/elisp-vs-common-lisp.org

How we document our Lisp software

https://nyxt-browser.com/article/lisp-documentation-patterns.org

New videos:

Copy text from web pages without the mouse!

https://nyxt-browser.com/article/visual-mode-demonstration.org

Learn about how bookmarks in Nyxt work.

https://nyxt-browser.com/article/exploring-bookmarks.org

Learn about the magical properties of Nyxt search.

https://nyxt-browser.com/article/magic-search.org

Select multiple links by clicking and dragging.

https://nyxt-browser.com/article/drag-select.org

Learn about how link hints can make you super fast!

https://nyxt-browser.com/article/link-hints-supercharged.org

Interesting reads:

https://www.islandsoforder.com/the-logistic-map.html

A nice interactive to visualize population growth models. (try leaving the starting population constant and adjusting the r variable for growth to see why slow-and-steady wins the race)

https://www.islandsoforder.com/daisyworld.html

Another model from the same source. This one helps us wrap our heads around self-organizing, and self-regulating environmental systems. (can you adjust the parameters of this thought experiment to avoid catastrophe?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier,_Alaska

A town in Alaska in which everyone lives in the same building.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974

Two talking cats. This is what the Internet was made for, no?

Update on the macOS + Windows port

We are currently working on refactoring some of our core to handle the differences between ports. Our progress is nominal for a soft alpha release around the new year. We'll keep you up-to-date when that happens!

Happy hacking!

• Nyxt team