#personalarchiving — Public Fediverse posts

How-To Geek: Why I’ve started archiving software the same way I archive family photos. “I have a habit of keeping all my software and files, regardless of whether I use them regularly. I have a sweet deprecated version of Noteworthy Composer (to run on a VM) and a portable version of Reaper that I’ve been using for years. The modern web and modern services have made it increasingly difficult […]

How-To Geek: Why I’ve started archiving software the same way I archive family photos. “I have a habit of keeping all my software and files, regardless of whether I use them regularly. I have a sweet deprecated version of Noteworthy Composer (to run on a VM) and a portable version of Reaper that I’ve been using for years. The modern web and modern services have made it increasingly difficult […]

Alex Chan: The Internet forgets, but I don’t want to . “I want to remember social media, and not just as a vague memory. I want to remember exactly what I read, what I saw, what I wrote. If I was born 50 years ago, I’m the sort of person who’d keep a scrapbook full of letters and postcards – physical traces of the people who mattered to me. Today, those traces are digital. I don’t […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/09/alex-chan-the-internet-forgets-but-i-dont-want-to/

Alex Chan: The Internet forgets, but I don’t want to . “I want to remember social media, and not just as a vague memory. I want to remember exactly what I read, what I saw, what I wrote. If I was born 50 years ago, I’m the sort of person who’d keep a scrapbook full of letters and postcards – physical traces of the people who mattered to me. Today, those traces are digital. I don’t […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/09/alex-chan-the-internet-forgets-but-i-dont-want-to/

Alex Chan: How I create static websites for tiny archives. “There’s also no single code base I could share – every site I build is different, and the code is often scrappy or poorly documented. I’ve built dozens of small sites this way, and there’s no site that serves as a good example of this approach – they’re all built differently, implement a subset of my ideas, or have […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/20/alex-chan-how-i-create-static-websites-for-tiny-archives/

I kinda feel like we’re just too inured to the modern miracle that is SQLite. That a fully featured relational database supporting much of the SQL standard can be packaged up in less than 1MB of portable code is incredible. And they guarantee to support the current (open, portable) file format until _2050_ , which is why it is specifically supported by the Library of Congress!

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