u/Lonely-Session-7643 — reddlx

Image 1 — Whatever Browser , a WIP alternative to Brave/Zen

Image 2 — Whatever Browser , a WIP alternative to Brave/Zen

Whatever Browser , a WIP alternative to Brave/Zen

My WIP perfect app for browsing the dead internet. A simple, WebKit-based that can turn in any colors, gradients, tones, psychedelic mode or office. Combining Nim lang for core + Swift for native UI. Built-in ad blocker with 13k rules (from adaway's repo), browsing shitty news sites and youtube feels like having the Premium Web.

UI made in ~5 days using DS v4 flash/ Muse Spark 1.3. No OpenAI/Anthropic involved, lol! While nim core is made using generic, open-source packages part of my portfolio.

Made in EU, with Transylvanian vibes. truly yours: https://github.com/onebuckapp/whatever

things:

built-in compiled ad blocker, no js
split screen, multiple windows
rounded-pill tabs, or just tabs!
private mode, mute/unmute tab
bookmark manager
password manager with master password protection, password generation + strength estimator
browsing and downloads history
share URL as QR
find in page regex
lovely RSS crawler (speed, direction, refresh interval)
full noise overlay
background colors, gradients (linear/radial with angle and multiple points), loop video or image
customize tabs (inactive/active with colors, images or videos)
macos only (👀 looking into WebView2 for Windows and WebKit for Linux)

check roadmap, drop ideas (no cloud, no mobile, no crypto wallets!)

u/Lonely-Session-7643 — 5 days ago

▲ 4 r/buildinpublic

Whatever.app - Browsing the dead Internet ☠️

A browser based on WebKit, Nim (ma'luv) + Swift. Built-in ad blocker, lots of customization, and really cool 👉 https://github.com/onebuckapp/whatever. 0.1.0 is pretty usable!

It was originally started in Flutter + Nim, but I dropped that idea because I wanted a native UI. Before you throw stones at me: I didn't use OpenAI/Anthropic, but open models through OpenCode's GO plan (a good plan, after a month of LLM assistance, I'm at around 65% usage. It renews today, in a few hours).

A few details:

Ad blocker with over 13k rules compiled into WebKit
Nim <> Swift via XPC, keeping the UI clean and heavy things to Nim lang
Split screen / Multiple Windows
RSS feed + crawler
Share a page as a QR code
Hover link balloon
pkg/boogie database (for settings and history)
pkg/openparser (for QR codes, regex, RSS feed parsing, fuzzy search, and find-in-page)
Lots of customization options: film-grain overlay, solid colors, gradients, images, videos (tabs, window)

strip metadata from photos, audios and videos

I guess we should animate this sub somehow. A simple CLI for removing metadata from files!

usage: striptease &lt;input|input-dir&gt; --out:&lt;dir&gt; [options]

required:
  &lt;input&gt;             file or directory (mixed formats allowed)
  -o, --out:&lt;dir&gt;     output directory for cleaned copies
                      (single file input plus --out:foo.ext writes one file,
                       not needed with --inspect)

supported formats:
  audio: .wav | images: .jpg .jpeg .png .gif .webp
  raw: .cr2 .nef .nrw .arw .srf .dng .rw2 .orf .pef .srw .tif .tiff
  video: .mp4 .mov .m4v .avi .mkv .webm | canon raw: .cr3 | heic: .heic .heif .hif

options:
  --dry-run           report only, write nothing
  --inspect           print metadata as pretty JSON, write nothing
  --verbose           per file kept and dropped chunks plus bytes saved
  --overwrite         overwrite existing files in out dir (default: skip)
  --keep-musical      WAV only: also keep cue, smpl, inst, acid chunks
  -h, --help          show this help
  --version           show version

github.com

u/Lonely-Session-7643 — 9 days ago