One thing with WSL(Ubuntu in my case) when running GUI apps, by default it sets an environment variable $NAME to the machine name, the same environment variable is used in picolisp for httpGateway. This will cause apps not running as expected. CSS won't load, etc... Running pil from the prompt like this worked "NAME= pil ....." solved the issue. Thanks to Abu for debugging this out .

Thanks for this great series. In my case, I get the correct page when I run the program. But when I press the links inside the page, I get about#blank/blocked on google chrome. on w3m, I get "can't load ?-A23". Also this post renders incorrectly starting from the header "Opening the Database File". most likely a missing markdown character in the blog page code. Thanks again for a very useful blog series.