Tag: archival
Anna’s Archive Just Backed Up All of Spotify
300TB, 256 million tracks, and a "digital safety net" for our musical heritage.
Interesting Internet Nooks
You know when you are sometimes just browsing the web, and you stumble upon a fascinating place that could be an art piece in a museum? Yes, those weird, odd, interesting websites, either because their old and charming, or because they're trying with a different concept. Today, I am sharing a few of those places I have found over the last years.
Blade SSD removal MBP 2017
Removal of the SSD of the MacBook Pro 2017 (functions keys)
Recently in January '24
January was a very busy month, which I did not really expect. More importantly, it's already gone. One twelfth of the year has already passed. How crazy is that? Let's quickly dive into the latest events.
Monaspace VS-Code install
How to install the Github Next team's Monaspace font in VSCode
Censorship or Protection?
An essay on the new wave of “online safety bills”
Pricing Out Your Legacy
The company behind WordPress decided to offer a service that promises to pay for your web hosting for a century, long after you die. Sticker shock aside, I don’t hate the idea.
Pretty Darn Fascinating
The story of the PDF, the portable document format that’s become one of the internet’s defining information formats. It’ll be with us after we’re long gone.
Garmin Vivoactive 4 with Home Assistant
I wanted to control my smart home from my Garmin Vivoactive 4 but there wasn't a direct way. I found an app called APICall that lets my watch call webhooks. Home Assistant worked better than the Google Assistant integration I originally planned, and I was able to set it up in under 10 minutes using Docker. Now I can control things like Spotify playback with my watch using APICall and Home Assistant!
Install TrueNAS Core on Proxmox
How to install TrueNas Core on proxmox with drive passthrough
Make Digital Preservation Easier
If major companies think it’s too hard or costly to leave up user-generated content, perhaps we need to change the motivations.
Dead on Archival
Considering the challenges that face shuttered newspapers with decades or even centuries of material to preserve.
Down With Snippet View
The limitations of Google Books can be seen in the way that it handles obscure trade publications. Everyone who made that old magazine? Probably dead.
Honey, I Shrunk The Page
Microfiche (or microfilm, depending on how you roll) is a library mainstay, but its history is wild, according to this note I got from a carrier pigeon.