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Post by xwowsersx »

sjy wrote: post #117
xwowsersx wrote: post #64

Maybe I'm dense, but I'm having trouble understanding what is so difficult about keeping content around. It seems like the issue of webpack and node and all the other things he mentions on the article aren't really problems with content per se. You can just publish your thoughts as a plain text file or markdown or whatever and you're good to go. I'm having a hard time thinking of types of content that are really tied…

> I'd love to see an extreeeemely minimal tool which lets you drop some files in a folder and then create an index page that links to those. Don’t most web servers do this already?

Good point haha

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Post by simongr3dal »

chaostheory wrote: post #199
shasheene wrote: post #7

There's no reason why a web browser bookmark action doesn't automatically create a WARC (web archive) format. Heck, with the cost of storage so low, recording every webpage you ever visit in searchable format is also very realistic. Imagine having the last 30 years of web browsing history saved on your local machine. This would especially be useful when in research mode and deep diving a topic. [1] https://github.com…

This problem has been solved a long time ago if you use Pinboard. https://pinboard.in/ Just pay the yearly subscription so pinboard can cache your bookmarks.

Does pinboard caching work with sites that are behind a login or paywall?

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Post by tasogare »

hk__2 wrote: post #175
ryanfox wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been building an application to do this, except for everything on your computer! It’s called APSE[0], short for A Personal Search Engine. [0] https://apse.io

Having to pay $15/month ($180/yr!) to be able to search stuff on my own computer for years seems awfully expensive. I'd rather depend on some simple open-source piece of software that I can understand and maintain if necessary.

Yeah, the sheer idea of paying a subscription for software that is running on my computer to index local resources is crazy. This kind of software should be should sold as one-time buy license.

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Post by jtbayly »

carlosdp wrote: post #74
jtbayly wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s quite the caveat, and speaking as somebody who has attempted it, you’ve introduced quite a bit of complexity. The whole point is that complexity militates against keeping it online. Keeping it simple, the author’s theory seems to go, is the single most effective way to make something likely to be able to be available long term. I think he’s probably right.

None of what he wrote mitigates the case where he no longer maintains his site and stops paying for the server, which is the very reason all those links he mentioned were dead (defunct websites/hosts).

But if you kept it simple in the first place, you can easily do the work necessary to keep it online, and are thus more likely to do it.

The moment you have to struggle with NPM dependencies to switch hosts, it’s all over. If all you have is a bit of html, no problem.

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Post by WalterBright »

tempestn wrote: post #81
shasheene wrote: post #7

There's no reason why a web browser bookmark action doesn't automatically create a WARC (web archive) format. Heck, with the cost of storage so low, recording every webpage you ever visit in searchable format is also very realistic. Imagine having the last 30 years of web browsing history saved on your local machine. This would especially be useful when in research mode and deep diving a topic. [1] https://github.com…

This was what made me convert from bookmarking to clipping pages into Evernote around 6-7 years ago. I realized I had this huge archive of reference bookmarks that were almost useless because 1) I could rarely find what I was looking for, if I even remembered I'd bookmarked something in the first place, and 2) if I did, it was likely gone anyway. With Evernote I can full text search anything I've clipped in the past…

I store bookmarks (i.e. URLs) in a simple .txt file. My text editor lets me click on them to bring them up in a browser.

> Only downside is I'm dependent on Evernote

No special software nor database required.

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Post by oefrha »

inimino wrote: post #148
joppy wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google web fonts were a great way to make my site slower. I don’t know if it’s the latency here in Australia or what, but (especially for developing locally) google web fonts were a big headache for having snappy webpages. I took the time one day to produce my own webfont files and self-host those, and the difference in site load speed is like night and day.

And that's where they are not banned. Many pages simply won't load at all in the PRC because someone thought a Google analytics tracker or a hosted library should load before the content (which then never does).

Actually Google Analytics works fine in PRC.

Google Fonts also isn’t blocked but I recall it being hit-and-miss in terms of responsiveness when I was working on a website that targeted Chinese audience a few years ago. However, I just tried resolving fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com on a Chinese server of mine, and they both resolve to a couple of Beijing IP addresses belonging to AS24424 Beijing Gu Xiang Information Technology Co. Ltd., so it’s probably very much usable now.

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Post by akho »

chaostheory wrote: post #199
shasheene wrote: post #7

There's no reason why a web browser bookmark action doesn't automatically create a WARC (web archive) format. Heck, with the cost of storage so low, recording every webpage you ever visit in searchable format is also very realistic. Imagine having the last 30 years of web browsing history saved on your local machine. This would especially be useful when in research mode and deep diving a topic. [1] https://github.com…

This problem has been solved a long time ago if you use Pinboard. https://pinboard.in/ Just pay the yearly subscription so pinboard can cache your bookmarks.

I do not see how using a web thing is a solution to web things going away.
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