Today I Found: Volume 3
In this weeks installment we save all the pages, read about telephonic barbed wire, and visit a beaver museum.
Reading Material
- The heat death of the internet
- Forgotten war on beepers
- A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
Online Services
Given the enshittification of the internet as outlined in the heat death article above, here are some tools to save pieces of the internet before they get swallowed by another mega-corp or get put behind a paywall.
Marky the Markdownifier: this cool little utility from Brett Terpstra will take a webpage and convert it to markdown format with the bonus of removing comments and ads.
Just get my data: In a world where services want to keep you locked in,
Just get my dataaims to be a directory of urls/instructions on how to easily obtain your data from a wide variety of web services. The service also includes a ranking on how difficult the process is at each service.Plain text sports: On a less serious note, I don't follow a ton of sports anymore but I do feel the need to check on certain scores or upcoming games and this site makes that a breeze. As the title says, this is a sports site stripped of all the banners, ads, and nonsense to just provide schedules and scores in plain text.
Terminal
- Archivebox: A self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view websites offline. As the site puts it:
It can be used to save copies of bookmarks, preserve evidence for legal cases, backup photos from FB/Insta/Flickr or media from YT/Soundcloud/etc., save research papers, and more…
- jqp: a
Gobased TUI playground for exploring json data with jq.
- bandwhich: TUI tool for displaying bandwidth usage by process, connection, and IP in real-time. Found via Terminal trove
Misc
Busy Beaver Button Museum: The mission of the Button Museum is to show as much American history as possible through pinback buttons. I was always jealous of the people that had cool pins on their jean jackets back in the day.