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TL;DR Yes, user forums and the Internet Archive are extremely important for digital preservation work.

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Software can be finished We don’t need this many interpreted web languages.

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages The project continues to be a convenient source of tiny-tiny programs written in various programming languages.

I had the good fortune to attend an Archiving the Black Web meeting last week.

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 TextSynth Server ts_server is a web server proposing a REST API to large language models.

The computing industry is extremely resource intensive.

I saw some recent news going around about the Australian Internet Observatory.

Yesterday Kevin Ford and I gave a presentation (slides) at the LD4 conference about the use of BIBFRAME “bounded descriptions” at the Library of Congress (LC) and in the Blue Core project.

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Tella In challenging environments, with limited or no internet connectivity or in the face of repression, Tella makes it easier and safer to collect, protect and hide sensitive data. activ…

John’s TASCAM 788 The device to the right is the external CD RW backup, which I purchased from Ebay, since I (foolishly) discarded John’s when we were clearing out his apartment.

tl;dr btrix is a bring-your-own-model chat interface for web archiving, which I demo below with my shiny new inference.coop account I’ve been experimenting recently with a chat interface to the browsertrix-crawler software.

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Amazon’s AWS is unable to restore access to Bahrain, one UAE cloud data zone after war damage Amazon Web Services cannot restore access to its cloud-computing facility in Bahrain and ‌one…

Birds of a feather

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed cyber-attack on RubyGems On May 11th, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages were uploaded to RubyGems by AI agents.

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Middledune - letterpress, silkscreen & handmade books Middle Dune is a small stationery and paper goods business based on Cape Cod, MA.

One of the peculiar things about RDF is that it is a data model, or a graph, that can be serialized using different data formats (XML, JSON, Turtle, n-triples etc).

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Ancient Trees and Fossil Capitalism - KPFA For as long as we’ve known, humans have revered ancient trees.

A few days ago I wrote about a new tool called wacz-pdf, which will read a WACZ file and write out each web page as a PDF file.

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Do you WANT contributors?

Sometimes the bad guys come out on top Sometimes the good guys lose We try not to lose our hearts, not to lose our minds Sometimes the bad days maintain their grip Sometimes the good days fade But the rain today hurts the head to dream But nothing ever st…

Archival Poetics and the War on Memory (Naropa University, 2012) is a panel discussion about the conditions that produce, sustain and delimit archives, and how these processes are intrinsically connected to (or born out of) poetics and creative practice.

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Illich at 100 We’re spreading a rumour.

Vine on bark

Update: this tool is now called waczdoc.