#dev 2025-08-05

2025-08-05 UTC
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aaronpk lol yeah every time I touch a node project it escalates to "I should update my OS too"
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[snarfed] thanks for the concern about Bridgy Fed re Ghost, all! we have a good relationship with them, I'm not too concerned about them "crediting" us, etc, but I appreciate the support
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[snarfed] gRegor oof that's a bad one, sorry about that, I'll look
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[social] Node and JS frameworks were what got me to move away from developing for pay and take on the other 100% of my worklife as more of my focus.
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[snarfed] the mojibake there is probably related. interestingly I don't see it in the raw post text itself: https://pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:ofwzo2gyeln4p2pz4zuo6yno/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvlz7fqiki2e
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[snarfed] filed https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/1936
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Loqi [preview] [snarfed] #1936 publish: link turned truncation ellipsis into mojibake
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GWG What have people been doing about link rot lately? I'm thinking of turning adactio's code from a previous IWC into a WordPress plugin to temporarily solve it, but not sure if it is a good long-term solution
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[tantek] GWG, I feel there's been some adoption about auto-archiving any outbound links to Internet Archive but less so on the tracking of dead sites and repairing of dead links which seems like a harder problem to solve semi-automatically
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GWG [tantek]: I have not been auto-archiving.
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GWG Was thinking of setting that up to
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[tantek] I thought there was already a WP plugin to do that too
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GWG [tantek]: Is there?
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GWG Last time I looked it didn't work the way I wanted, but I should check
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[mattl] I think jwz has a plugin for that GWG
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[artlung] Waybackify? https://www.jwz.org/hacks/#waybackify (it has a similar architecture to his mastodon backfill script which works great for me, a perl script + wp plugin; quirky but it WORKS)
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[mattl] Waybackify-wp I think
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GWG [mattl]: I'll check again
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