Posts from August 16, 2026

Following on from html2gemtext, the inevitable has happened: I couldn't let the Markdown side of things remain unaddressed. While Rogallo v1.8.0 added some extra rendering of Markdown to make it look more "pretty", I felt it really needed to be handled so it had more utility. Being fully navigable, even by keyboard, seems more important than pretty tables.

So md2gemtext now exists as a library on PyPI. I have two plans for this. While I fully intend to shake up the Markdown support in Rogallo -- either replacing the use of the Textual Markdown widget to display it, or at least giving the user a configuration option to decide how Markdown is displayed -- I also want to pay some attention to my (currently rather simple) Gemini-based log and use this library to build a tool that will convert this blog's Markdown content into Gemtext that looks just how I want it.

As with html2gemtext, this is an early version of this library, and I'm sure there will be edge cases I'll have missed and will want to tidy up. But at the moment the results are looking promising.

I'm once again in a place where I'm actually half-seriously thinking that much of what Hike does could be built into Rogallo, if I were to simply add http(s) support there.

For a wee while now I've been trying to nail down a weirdness with the navigation history in Rogallo. I never felt it was a difficult issue to deal with, but it was also one of those issues that I could never obviously recreate at will, and it only seemed to happen while I was busy working on something else.

Yesterday evening I finally managed to come up with a way to always recreate it and, having done so, the solution seems pretty straightforward¹. In order to implement the tweak I want, I need to be able to truncate the navigation history, and of course do so in a non-destructive way.

So the history classes in BagOfStuff v1.3.0 have grown clone and truncate methods. This will allow me to duplicate a history, truncate it at its current location, then save it, without affecting the working copy.