exploring something cool 11-05-26
If you love a website, back it up
By the way, for disclosure: the tools I’m going to mention in this blog post are made by the company I work for, but that’s not because they’ll pay my salary (most of them are free!). I just happen to think these are the best tools there are for personal web archiving.
😎 Note:
I’ve started exploring the tools mentioned in the blog post. The free tools (Options 1 & 2) require manually browsing the site to be archived, and they both do the job. Option 3, which is more automated, involves a free, 7-day trial that turns into a monthly subscription at a price far too high for my blood, so I won't be exploring that option (I’m not fond of the subscription model for software, especially at such a high monthly cost). See "The Tools" section of this post below for more details.
All of the tools I’ll be showing off in this post use standard web archiving formats like WARC. You don’t have to worry about any of the technical details, but I’m telling you that because it means there are a lot of really great tools to do whatever you want with them...
Footnotes from article:
WARC: Most of the tools I’m mentioning also use the WACZ format, which packages up WARC files along with extra metadata.
technical details: For those who want a little extra technical detail, though: one of the things that makes WARC special is that it records complete information about requests and responses, including all headers. This gives WARC a much more complete view of the whole process of visiting a website, and makes it possible to archive even complicated sites with client-side JavaScript that make a ton of requests.
[ ⇦ @misty@digipres.club, author, The Future is Now ]
The Tools
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Option 1:
ArchiveWeb.page browser extension (requires Chrome or Chromium based browser) -
Option 2:
standalone archiveweb.page app[ + 📌cogdog ]
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Option 3:
Browsertrix
(Note: “Free for 7 days, then $30/mo.”) -
Optional Archive Viewer:
ReplayWeb.page (embeddable)[ + 📌cogdog ]
mixed bag 11-03-26
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The Endless Museum
“3D Wikipedia Game”Every article is a room, every hyperlink a doorway. Wander Wikipedia as an endless museum - or race friends through it.
[ 📌arnicas ]
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An open source self-hostable bookmark service
[ 📌dbuscher ]
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Welcome to Wildebeest (github)
“the Fediverse on Cloudflare”...an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server built entirely on top of Cloudflare's Supercloud. If you want to run your own spot in the Fediverse you can now do it entirely on Cloudflare.
[ 📌peterkaminski ]
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medialab/xan
“The CSV magician”...a command line tool that can be used to process CSV files directly from the shell.
[ 📌dbuscher ]
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Mystery Chart
“The daily chart guessing game”Five real charts every day, built from live public data. The title is redacted. Can you work out what you're looking at?
twofer 11-01-26
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We're bootstrapping a network of twitter-like systems built out of components of the web and nothing more. Every part replaceable.
[ ⇦ ]
😎 cool!
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Bloffy
“Your blog, your markup. No server to manage.”Write in Markdown and HTML, customize with CSS and JavaScript, and publish on your own domain.
[ 📌jimcmcdonald ]
“All the music in the world”
MuGlobe
“Explore World Music on an Interactive Globe”
Site description:
Discover music by place. Explore genres, artists and musical traditions on MuGlobe’s interactive world map, listen to recordings and read their stories.
From the site's creator, Ed Brakus:
You move around the globe and wherever you land it creates a virtual radio station for that place and streams local music. It uses a map of musical genres and musical regions. Click on the (i) info buttons to see detailed wiki articles about the area’s music, the genres, history, and how the music evolved. It also has playlist support.
It’s free and has no ads.
I have been listening to world music since I was an 11 year old boy flipping through the TV stations and one day landed on a Tito Puente timbale solo. I never looked back and always wondered why more people don’t know about and listen to music from around the world.
So this has been a labor of love for me.
Thanks for reaching out Ed!
😎 I like it!
Caveat(s): When I signed up and registered an account, I went looking for a Privacy Policy to see how my email address might be used. It appears yet to have been completed.
Update (11/01/26): I’ve been informed as to the location of the site’s Privacy Policy, which should be “easier to find” in the future.
mixed.bag.select 10-28-26
😎 joe really likes ’em!
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Before the internet went corporate, it was weird, wonderful, and deeply personal. People built websites just because they had something to share. This directory is full of sites that bring back that feeling.
[ 📌ramblinggit ]
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The Outer Web
“An index of authentic and informative web content”It's just a name we came up with to describe what's also referred to as the indieweb, blogosphere, small web, personal web, slow web and old web. Some of these terms don't cover everything we're interested in, others are closely associated with a specific entity and we don't want to step on any toes.
[ 📌bales ]
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Local Wikipedia
“The Encyclopedia For Local People”Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.
[ Waxy ⇦ Web Curios + 📌angusf + 📌sachaa + 📌tdjones ]
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Generate favicons, apple touch icons, and open graph images"
[...] Use Lens to check your icons and images are working correctly
[ 📌dbuscher ]
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FontCP
“Font Copy and Paste — Free Font Generator”Copy and paste fonts instantly — 300+ bold, cursive, fancy, gothic and cute styles [...] Free font generator, no sign-up.
[ 📌tdjones ]
twofer.diversions 10-26-26
😎 a little fun break to start the week:
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The city is yours. Street races, flying cars, and open roads...
[ 📌arnicas ]
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Wordgy
“Daily Word Chain Game”Connect the chain of words once a day to get the highest score, and create your own word chains to challenge your friends.
[ 📌tdjones ]
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