So a good while ago I added a fun curl version of my site, meant for viewing in the terminal. Try running these commands!
(sorry Windows users, not my fault that ANSI escape codes are disabled-by-default in cmd.exe. And not my fault that in Powershell you have to use curl.exe instead of curl because Powershell inexplicably aliases that to Invoke-WebRequest.)
I posted about it a bit on the Fediverse, but otherwise didn't elaborate much on it becuase I figured it was fairly self-explanatory. But I've had a handful of people ask me how I did it, so I decided it might actually be worth it to write a post about how I did it (…like seven months late).
I should note this idea came from trinkey's (curl trinkey.com) and strongsand's (curl proot.party) curl sites, I didn't come up with it myself. Even though I did go about it quite a bit differently from them, all credit for the very cool idea goes to them. (UPDATE: unfortunately neither of their curl versions are functional anymore as of 2026-10-14.)
