Jelmer van Arnhem

Jelmer van Arnhem is an independent Dutch developer who channels a minimalist, keyboard-driven philosophy into a single, highly focused product: Vieb. Built on Electron yet engineered to feel as light as the terminal editors its users adore, Vieb is a web browser that treats Vim shortcuts not as an optional layer but as the sole interface language. Every tab, history entry, bookmark or download is addressed through concise keystrokes; the mouse is optional, menus are absent, and chrome is reduced to a pixel-thin modeline that displays the current URL and mode. This design caters to developers, DevOps engineers and technical writers who already structure their daily workflows around Vim or Neovim and want the same modal editing, macro recording and custom mappings when they research documentation, monitor CI dashboards or compose cloud console commands. Because the browser exposes its full configuration in a plain-text rc file, power users can script domain-specific behaviours—such as auto-entering insert mode on webmail or hardening privacy settings on social sites—then sync the same dotfiles across Linux, Windows and macOS workstations. Extensions are deliberately unsupported, encouraging users to rely on external tools such as password-store, news-boat or ripgrep for ancillary tasks and thereby keep the browsing surface small, auditable and fast. Vieb’s entire codebase is open source, released under the GPL-3.0 licence and actively maintained through GitHub issues and merge requests. The browser is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources like winget, always pull the latest upstream release and can be installed in batch alongside other open-source utilities.