I've just released v1.3.0 of Hike, my little terminal-based Markdown browser. It's about a year now since I made the first release and I've been making the odd update here and there, but mostly it's a pretty stable tool. There's a few other things I'd like to do with it but I keep getting distracted by different ideas.
Today's release sort of rides on the coattails of the current love for all things Markdown because of "the AI". It seems that some folk are now keen on the idea of serving Markdown from their websites, when asked for it: as you can see in this post for example. While that might be handy for some LLM bot or whatever, it's also pretty handy if you happen to have a web-friendly Markdown browser!
So v1.3.0 makes a small change to how a URL is looked at when deciding if it might be a Markdown document, by saying "hey, web server, I like Markdown more than anything else, so feel free to serve me that up". If we get a Markdown type back, we go ahead and load it into Hike.
This means that the post mentioned above loads up just fine now:
Previously, Hike would have gone "nah, that's not a Markdown document" and would have handed off to the environment's web browser.
Hike is licensed GPL-3.0 and available via
GitHub and also via
PyPi. If you have an environment that has
pipx installed you should be able to get up and going with:
$ pipx install hike
If you're more into
uv:
uv tool install hike
If you don't have uv installed you can use uvx.sh to
perform the installation. For GNU/Linux or macOS or similar:
curl -LsSf uvx.sh/hike/install.sh | sh
or on Windows:
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://uvx.sh/hike/install.ps1 | iex"