Some useful advice on slow cooking red meat
A tool that archives urls locally. I am hoping it can replace my ersatz archiver, which really just creates PDFs. ArchiveBox doesn't handle html "books" out of the book, it only archives the table of contents. But it may be possible to use wget arguments to get it to go deeper.
“ Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer”
I have no idea how much of this is accurate, whether its depiction of the prevailing theory of mind and consciousness is correct or its counter-theory. Interesting starting point though for something I feel is important to, if not actually understand, at least have some knowledge of.
Locally hosted web application that allows you to perform various operations on PDF files. I was kind of hoping the convert web to PDF would be a possible replacement for running chromium and puppeteer, but my first experiment wasn't great. The other tools still look worth exploring.
A guide to the fundamental concepts that underlie message queues, and how they apply to popular queueing systems available today.
Anna runs Anna's Archive, a search engine of shadow libraries. A big old article on the why's and how's of being a guerilla preserver of books and media.
So much weird content about the internet
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
A little bit of an explainer on the changing nature of training LLMs. They are increasingly being trained on things other than just the open internet.