It has been a long time since I wrote aything here, being busy with
other stuff. 

I just wanted to mention a few hacks I have been working on during
the transition-to-new-year holidays, which are related to gopher and
text tools. More phlogs to follow soon.

Gopher support in VLC
=====================

I submitted a patch to vlc-devel to add support for gopher URLs. The
patch was accepted:

  https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=66c7fc04d7d0d944215c99012cbcb94dc42c3531

so if you pull the latest VLC git repo and build it, you can do things
like:

  vlc gopher://bitreich.org/9/memecache/gopherpizza.mp4

I also wanted to mention that gopher support had been recently added
in another media player, mpv, by leot.

xml2tsv
=======

I wrote a simple tool to transform XML input into a list of
tab-separated-values records. The tool is called xml2tsv and is
available at:

  https://git.katolaz.net/xml2tsv
  gopher://git.katolaz.net/1/cgit-70.cgi?url=xml2tsv/
  git clone (git|https)://git.katolaz.net/tsv

I find it very handy to parse and process HTML and XML input, and it
can turn very useful for converting RSS feeds and HTML pages to gopher.
As usual, comments and patches are welcome.