bitarchivist.net
a mix of professional (digital preservation, web archiving, open source software) and personal takes
senior applications and tools engineer @ webrecorder.net
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Glad that brought you some joy! With the approach described at webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03... it should even be possible to put it back up at the original domain powered by the web archive so that original URLs resolve again :)
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this post sponsored by an email from github promoting free use of copilot. no thank you, I would sooner fly into the sun
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thank you Mireille! 🖤 really appreciate the boost and kind words :)
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that's fantastic, i'll be in touch shortly!
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this whole project is lovely! so glad to know that it exists, and it's really nice to see the Project Endings recommendations and minimal computing principles applied :)
if this conversation moves forward I will definitely loop you in!
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archive.org/details/the-...
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everything the Luddites feared did come to pass! tech will always be used to replace and undermine skilled labor unless we explicitly approach it in a way that centers people.
highly recommend ursula franklin's real world of technology lectures, which touch on this, if you're not familiar
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i have many more questions and vague aspirations than answers or concrete plans, but it feels like there's a thread of something there that i'd like to keep pulling
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- are there existing efforts I could tap into/help support with time and technical know-how rather than trying to start something new from scratch? might there be the possibility of support or collaboration with existing queer and trans archives?
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- access considerations, especially if archiving social media + personal content: maybe certain content would need to be restricted to in-community use only? it would be wise to revisit the docnow white paper + chat with other folks who are archiving their own politically targeted communities
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- it'd be important not to centralize these archives in any one place so that they're less vulnerable to takedowns/political interference. single points of failure could be exploited by those who want to censor trans peoples' stories and resources online
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A lot is happening right now, especially on the web. Know that the Webrecorder team is here to support you. We offer dedicated tools to assist with your web archiving needs. We are happy to offer a free trial,reach out to [email protected] to try Browsertrix today!
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our tools work on articles behind paywalls if you have a login - we have a Chrome extension called archiveweb.page and a crawler called Browsertrix that can work from a saved browser profile (with a nice UI or just the crawler in a Docker container)
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In the meantime if you want to make/share high fidelity web archives of the articles before they get even less accessible, I work on FOSS web archiving tools @webrecorder.net and would be happy to help!
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Tools for bigger/automated crawling:
Crawler (runs in Docker container): github.com/webrecorder/...
Or try out our full web archiving system, which runs the crawler with a friendly UI and curation/sharing features: github.com/webrecorder/...
Also available hosted (early days): browsertrix.com
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For @janus.bsky.social and anyone else who's trying to archive their work before the site disappears, check out this post for free tools to create replayable high fidelity archives!
bsky.app/profile/bita...
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"what? oh shit, a con save?" *face goes pale*
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this is how you lose the time war is short, fun, queer, and an interesting format which might help! I read it in one sitting. and the murderbot series by martha wells are also quick funny sci fi reads with more depth than you'd expect given the title :)