#bookmarks

Well, I had this idea. A new bot that would post one bookmark per day to a Mastodon account.

I’m storing more and more of my data as static websites, and about a year ago I switched to using a local, static site to manage my bookmarks. It’s replaced Pinboard as the way I track interesting links and cool web pages. I save articles I’ve read, talks I’ve watched, fanfiction I’ve enjoyed.

"Bookmarklets" are an underutilized and frankly little-known feature in Chrome and Firefox (and probably most other browsers too) that allows you to create a bookmark that contains a little bit of JavaScript instead of a link to a web page.

I wrote code (in PHP) to import my old bookmarks. And you didn’t misread that, it’s 28,000 links over the last 20 years. They come from my original links blog, and from Delicious, and from Instapaper, and from Twitter back when I backfilled those shared links into Pinboard, which I then backfilled into my link blog database. It’s a lot of things, but really, it’s straightforward from a programming point of view. It’s a simple POST to the REST API which Linkding provides by default. I have shared most of the code I wrote as a Gist in GitHub. It includes code in PHP to convert exported CSV from Instapaper to a JSON format that my poster code can use. And over the last 2 days and over many hours, every few seconds a link would be posted. And as of now, it’s finished.

Highlight:lmorchard's public boomarks lmorchard's public boomarks

All bookmarks with a via:* tag, voluntarily showing where the goods were first found.

"WebnoteHappy is a new web site tagging and annotating app for Mac OS X that helps you organize, bookmark, and make notes about the web pages that matter to you."

"a way to express any large number as a sequence of syllables. The general idea is that word-sounding pieces of information are a lot easier to remember than a sequence of digits."

"Annotea Ubimarks is part of Annotea social bookmarks and topics work in Mozilla. It lets any user familiar with the common bookmark user interface metaphora to create metadata for Semantic Web while the complexities of the Semantic Web are hidden from th

"Ben Brophy’s databaseless personal link aggregator, Linkwalla, has recently been upgraded to v0.9.7. Aside from Flickr and Ma.gnolia integration, the output is now marked up in the xFolk microformat."

"The XML Bookmark Exchange Language, or XBEL, is an Internet "bookmarks" interchange format."

It's the granddaddy of del.icio.us!

Lazy Sheep is a del.icio.us bookmarklet that auto-tags and auto-describes your bookmarks.

"Hallon can create bookmarks in many applications (like iTunes) that usually can't create bookmarks and they are always accessible from a menu whatever you are doing."