VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. The new reading stack

   2025-05-10
   book indie library network/activitypub personal-knowledge programming/html self-hosting web/syndication

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   • Owning my reading log
   • Indie Bookshelves
   • BookWyrm - Social Reading and Reviewing
   • Indieweb - Personal Library
     • 2022/Pop-ups/Personal Libraries
   • Microformats
     • h-cite - format for publishing citations and references to online and other publications
     • h-entry - format for content intended to be syndicated on the web
     • h-review - format for publishing reviews on the web

   Book metadata sources:

   • Bookbrainz
   • Open Library by the Internet Archive
2. Archiving URLs | Gwern

   2025-04-09
   network/http personal-knowledge/bookmark personal-knowledge/digital-garden programming/go programming/html programming/java programming/python web web/scraping

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   • Archiving Web Sites (LWN)
   • Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives

   Web page archive formats:

   • ARC (1996)
   • WARC (BnF, 2009)
     • WARC Specifications
     • The WARC Ecosystem

   Tools for crawling, scraping and archiving Web pages:

   • internetarchive/heritrix3 - Extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project (Java)
   • internetarchive/Zeno - State-of-the-art web crawler (Go)
     • internetarchive/gowarc - Read and write WARC files in Go
   • webrecorder/pywb - Web Archiving Toolkit for replay and recording of web archives (Python)

   Self-hosted solutions:

   • ArchiveBox - A self-hosted app that lets you preserve content from websites in a variety of formats
   • Wallabag - Save and classify articles, read them later
3. Zoomer Tries RSS: In Praise of Yarr

   2024-11-19
   feed/rss personal-knowledge/bookmark

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   • nkanaev/yarr - yet another rss reader
   • Betula - A free federated self-hosted single-user bookmarking software for the independent web
   • ~bouncepaw/betula
4. feed reader best practices | Rachel By The Bay

   2024-10-26
   feed network/http network/http/header personal-knowledge/blog storage/cache web/syndication

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   Test feed:

   • feed reader score project
   • A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers
   • Feeds, updates, 200s, 304s, and now 429s
   • So many feed readers, so many bizarre behaviors
   • The feed reader score service is now online

   RFCs:

   • RFC 1945 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0 - If-Modified-Since
   • RFC 7232 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests - Entity Tag (ETag)
   • RFC 9110 - HTTP Semantics

   Related:

   • Bret Simmons - NetNewsWire and Conditional GET Issues
   • John Brayton - Feed Polling for Unread Cloud
   • Jeff Kaufman - Looking at RSS User-Agents
   • Chris Siebenmann - The case of the very old If-Modified-Since HTTP header
   • ETag and HTTP caching
   • HTTP Conditional Requests Explained
   • Caching - What takes precedence: the ETag or Last-Modified HTTP header?
5. raffomania/linkblocks - A federated network to bookmark, share and discuss good web pages with your friends

   2024-07-21
   personal-knowledge/bookmark programming/rust web/syndication

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6. Quartz - A fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites

   2024-05-15
   personal-knowledge/digital-garden programming/node.js programming/typescript web/static

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   • jackyzha0/quartz
   • Obsidian Compatibility
   • Digital garden - Networked Thought
7. Linkding - Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up

   2024-05-03
   framework/django linux/container/docker personal-knowledge/bookmark programming/python self-hosting

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8. Leigh Dodds - How I use my RSS reader

   2024-04-01
   feed/atom feed/rss personal-knowledge/bookmark programming/xml web/syndication

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   • Long live RSS! How I manage my reading
   • The Rise and Demise of RSS
   • What using RSS feeds feels like (It feels good)
   • Stumbling
9. nb - CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving

   2023-06-17
   command-line knowledge personal-knowledge/bookmark programming/markdown programming/shell web

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10. The XML Bookmark Exchange Language (XBEL)

    2022-09-24
    knowledge personal-knowledge/bookmark programming/python programming/xml

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    • https://xbel.sourceforge.net/language/versions/1.0/xbel-1.0.xhtml
    • https://xbel.sourceforge.net/2006/XBELicious/
    • https://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/
11. How I centralize and distribute my [browser] bookmarks

    2022-01-11
    internet/browser personal-knowledge/bookmark programming/html programming/node.js web

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    • https://github.com/thearegee/bookworms
12. LinkAce - Your self-hosted bookmark archive. Free and open source.

    2020-12-20
    archive knowledge personal-knowledge/bookmark programming/php web

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    • https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce
    • https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/kfi9n3/linkace_your_selfhosted_bookmark_archive_free_and/
13. Fan Is A Tool-Using Animal—dConstruct Conference Talk

    2020-12-13
    community fan fan-art fiction knowledge personal-knowledge/bookmark software tag web

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    • Pinboard Feature Requests
    • pinboard-dev Google Group
14. How the tech sector could move in One Direction — Sacha Judd

    2020-12-13
    community development fiction forum gender music personal-knowledge/blog social-media software web

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    via https://musicmachinery.com/2020/09/09/my-favorite-blog-post-of-all-time/

15. remark42: comment engine

    2020-09-07
    comment personal-knowledge/blog programming/go web

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    • https://remark42.com/demo/
16. pinry, a tiling image board system for people who want to save, tag, and share images, videos and webpages

    2019-10-24
    framework/django image knowledge personal-knowledge/bookmark programming/python self-hosting thumbnail

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17. Bookie: Save all your bookmarks!

    2019-09-11
    framework/django knowledge personal-knowledge/bookmark programming/python web

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    • https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/cv7ctw/bookie_bookmark_app/
18. jrnl - The Command Line Journal

    2019-09-10
    calendar journal knowledge personal-knowledge/blog programming/python

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    • https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl
    • https://jrnl.sh/overview/
19. Pleroma, a free, federated social networking server built on open protocols

    2019-07-30
    federation network/activitypub personal-knowledge/blog social web

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    • https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/
    • https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/
    • https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/readme.html
20. qstode: A web based bookmarks archive

    2018-12-22
    framework/flask personal-knowledge/bookmark programming/python web

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