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Using progressive enhancement, unrot∙link will check for link rot in real-time, and fall back to the Internet Archive to restore broken links. See the web site for details on how i…

Goodreads' data is…not good. So I've returned to one of the oldest tricks in the book: good old scraping - and actually end up with pretty decent data.

Hey there \o. original author of said hubba article :) Just wanted to offer some missing bits you might find interesting, specifically, the third function you don't recognise is th…

Server should all be back, and surviving HN hugs. No need to use this URL anymore

The source code will be available too once we get the go ahead.

I've put a working copy up on https://www.isthe.link/browser/ (I worked on the JavaScript that replicates the browser). We're (the team) are waiting to hear from the Ops folk at CE…

PUT, DELETE, etc were part of HTTP/1.1. The WorldWideWeb browser (later called Nexus) was created during the time of HTTP 0.9 (or rather the versionless HTTP). I spoke to a few of …

This doesn't work for everyone, but if you find allow yourself time, trying to solve specific problems you face (asking: could I automate this? Could this be simpler?) is a great w…

<3 there's a "keep me honest: donate" button at the bottom of my blog.

Playing devil's advocate: PE techniques aren't documented (so far as I know) so it's up the developer to take the path they're most comfortable with. FastBoot, I suspect , will dic…

Why not, instead, show an ellipsis in place of the majority of the subdomain leading up to the domain and increase opacity of the domain compared to subdomains and the pathname. Th…

It's something I did give a little thought to, but it's simply that all new subdomains create a new router that only allow for static content and directory listings. So nothing's b…

File an issue, and I'll add that - and yeah, even better, if you can do a pull request it saves me writing it :)

I used to try to do that with my projects, but I found keeping the gh-pages branch in sync with my master just enough of a pain that it quickly got neglected. I'm not saying you sh…

If you don't mind, I'll pinch that and whack it on the index.html page.

It's been mentioned, but the Khan editor gets around the problem because its a close environment - and I can't run the code the user submits in to a worker easily. The while proble…

I'll reply about the while stuff separately, but jsbin shouldn't and doesn't prompt anyone to create an account. The only two features you don't have access to is the history, and …

Just spotted an increase in pull requests and auto-generated user pages from the curl command and spotted HN had found this project. Thought I'd chime in an reply to a few of the c…

It was down for about 20minutes whilst I upgraded and ran some diagnostics on the database.