@movq CEF turns out to be pretty easy. I had to write a bit of C and Go to bridge, but once that got going I was able to write it into my pure Go go-wayland wlui library for final rendering. The delegating the entire CEF part was a good idea though because it keeps all the complexity in a container Image, leaving me with just the Go + C stubs/interface and SHM/IPC parts.

So I decided to change tact a bit with GoNIX and instead of trying to build apure Go browser from scratch (which I kinda of half succeeded, in at least it was able to render most static ssr sites), I’ve instead decided to write a new browsered using the Chromium Embedded Framework, otherwise known as CEF. So now I have a fully working browser in GoNIX 🎉 – However since my goal is to keep GoNIX pretty lcean and mostly written in Go, I delegated the cef part(s) to an OCI container image and run that with GoNIX’s box (command-line container runtime). It works great 👍

@balloonfu-sen Yeah, it also requires you to fill our a form with some sensiable inputs. There are other measures I’ve put in place to thwart/discourage bots/spammers too.

@balloonfu-sen The reason for my locking down my own instance here was purely because of spam and bots 😢

@balloonfu-sen Yeah No worries an welxome! Glad you didn’t find standing up your own stance too hard!

@balloonfu-sen Oh! You’re running Yarn.social’s yarnd? 😅 That’s why I was able to see your reply so quickly/easily ! Nice! And welcome! 🙏

@balloonfu-sen Nice! 👍

@bender LOL 😂

👋 mbox.blue now support custom domains you can point at your ~/public_html or ~/.mbox/expose app/service. Enjoy! 😉

@itsericwoodward I don’t 🤣

@lyse Does that mean they paid you 3x what it’s worth and you get teh product for free plus a bonus payout? 🤔 😅

@movq Here you go 🤣 https://git.mills.io/prologic/gonix/src/branch/main/cmd/imgview/main.go

@movq I looked into swagimg. That’s the thing, The latest version pulls in fark’n C++ (geez fuck) and luajit. Anything else I’ve round for Wayland depdns on Rust (wtf?!) – So I built my own in Pure Go. It’s wonderful, so simple, only ~170 lines of Go 🤣

Hmmm are there really no decent Wayland (desktop) compatible image viewers that don’t drag in Mesa and all it’s hundreds of dependences or GCC and libgcc and it’s multi-hour long build time or Rust? geez

Behold! 😎 I present to you, GoNIX 🐧

QEMU Screenshot:

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So I’ve been working on GoNIX the last few days… Which is derived from µLinux – At least it’s entire build process. GoNIX however has a 100% Go userland, including the init process, package and service management.

Now… As an experiment, because I was able to make much process on enhancing the build tools and package management, I decided to see if I could build a “Desktop” Gui of sorts…

I still wanted it to be fairly minimal and lightweight. So I went with wayland (of course) and labwc and yambar. So far I’m liking the result 👌 42 packages in the wayland-desktop meta port. Not too bad. Not sure if I can slim that down anymore… But trying to avoid Mesa/GL as that drags in far too much “cruft”.

@movq static sites are the best really 😅

Olisse · 2026-06-20 22:27 UTC
haihaihiii! mbox.blue is awesome ;)

So nice of the very few folks that have discovered mbox to say such nice things about my little experimental project and free service offering 😁

@itsericwoodward Apologies not necessary 😅

@movq

What’s your motivation for running this, btw? 🤔

Basically, two things a) feeling generous for folks that either can’t afford or find it hard to have a little place to call home (webpage, feed, whatever) and b) a real opportunity to test some of the components that make it possible sshbox, which I know works well as it fronts my Gitea instance’s Git+SSH service and box, a container runtime I wrote a while ago, recently improved, hardened and polished.

Behold, I bring you (reincarnated) mbox.blue – A tiny shared linux server based on / around containers (my own implemtnation).

@movq Gotta make the economy go “around” and keep public services in play 😅 Good luck! 🤞

@itsericwoodward Why hear? I’ll just put it up at https://twtxt.app now shall I? It’s good enough IMO that it’s already working quite well. The challenging parts now is to figure out a good set of default publishing connectors to support? 🤔

@itsericwoodward Yes really 🤣

Belhod! I present Swag – Build offline-first web apps in pure Go and HTML.

@movq Just working on swag 😅 And….. Building an Offline-first Yarn/twtxt client that has no server requirements (_other than you need to publish your feed somewhere…)

Hmmmm