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I wrote a blog post for the @webrecorder.net site all about exciting new developments in automated behaviors in Browsertrix. In short, it's easier than ever to tell the crawler exactly what actions to take while archiving a web page! Check it out: webrecorder.net/blog/2025-05...

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Reflections on a utility I wrote back in 2017 to help us preserve hyperlinks in documentary heritage. A look at why it is important, things you can do today to make life easier in the future. exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/looking... #digipres #DigitalContinuity #WebArchiving #TimeTravel #SaveNow

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A fun one to present back in Sept. A link to my No Time To Wait 8 recording and slide-deck and some thoughts about #DeclarativeProgramming and how you might embrace today. exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/declara... #NTTW #NTTW8 #digipres #Software #DigitalLiteracy #ProgrammingParadigms

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Could this be the biggest climate story of the year? For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta: www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

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📢 New blog! Ross Spencer (@b33tk33p3r.bsky.social) introduces JSONID, a tool to help spot #JSON files on your hard drive. 📂 Got JSONs you use or can’t identify? He’s looking for examples! ☕ Read the blog & engage with the #PRONOM discussion group: openpreservation.org/blogs/on-the... #Digipres

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1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

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Gen X: The ones heaping the pain on us all...

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Hypocrites and ghouls every last one of them...

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just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

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For the sake of my health, I’ve decided to stop work on Trove, archive all my code repositories related to Trove, and move on. Farewell Trove... https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/05/07/farewell-trove.html

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National Library of Australia should be absolutely ashamed. They have basically forced out a great researcher. But Tim's post also highlights the personal mental damage this has caused, when you have devoted your everything to research on a platform. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/05/07/f...

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We've seen it in the UK, the Overton WIndow has shifted... these aren't watered-down polite republicans, they're what the dems (party not followers) will/want to become as the Republicans become more fascist... they don't care. Believe them when they show you who they are.

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rather than doomscroll too much this weekend I made a weird archives #zine. I have no regrets.

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Post a ship that's not Star Wars or Star Trek

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Auckland Museum created a video series to help people at home to follow museum-grade care processes to look after their own precious 'KeepSakes' #ndf25 The videos are easy to follow and would be a good resource for small volunteer run collections as well. www.aucklandmuseum.com/discover/car...

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Canadian Voter: I think who I voted for would be the best to take care of Trump, because Trump is, I’m sorry to say, an asshole.

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ugh, finally looked up the meaning of vibe coder. no thank you! #softwareDevelopment #software #coding

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This AI thing is soooo helpful! #GeographyFail

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Lest favorite log messages, cURL's constant reminder GET is necessary, and is in-fact inferred. I mean sure, but when we're being explicit about our verbs for many reasons... #cURL #scripting #coding

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Bat appreciation day?! Why not combine it with your love of #Archives?! Check out my RedBubble... #GLAM #Stickers www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Ar...

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Best I can do is some 90s rave! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkcz...

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Endangered material knowledge programme www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMR735/e...

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exploratory image from ongoing collaboration with Lillian Nećakov

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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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It's the 10th 😱 anniversary of my Literature PhD defense (all-DH/no chapters: code, UX, blog...) w/core work=my Infinite Ulysses digital edition for interactive reading/annotating/discussing Joyce's hard novel in public. Static site archive/tour version=currently broken (known fix, no time 🙃) but! +

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Check out the background to this in my latest blog. exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/file-fo... There's an app if folks are interested! (0xffae): emoji.exponentialdecay.co.uk #digipres #DigitalLiteracy #Emoji #Python #FileFormats #PRONOM

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🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women. Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.

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