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webrecorder.io by Rhizome
An “integrated platform for creating high-fidelity web archives while browsing, sharing, and disseminating archived content.”
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Rhizome on archiving VVORK
After VVORK: How (and why) we archived a contemporary art blog
Just came across this 9 February 2015 Rhizome editorial. I’ve browsed VVORK a bit before, but I suppose I hadn’t really thought about it’s status or longevity as an archive.
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And now the Shipping Forecast
Lows western France 1011 and 100 miles east of Iceland 991 losing their identities
Couldn’t find the shipping forecast on the Met Office DataPoint’s product list, but I did find the relevant XML feed.
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On archiving/preserving websites
SB and I have been chatting about the whys, whens and hows involved in archiving a website. Archiving is always an uphill battle. It’s hard to take care of things as they age no matter what the material, and ageing code comes with a specific set of worries.
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Bengler on the OMA website design/build
Bengler on the OMA site design/build in tandem with Node Berlin Oslo
Bonkers, and awesome.
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Update to colour JS on piperhaywood.com
Just pushed an update to the colour JS on piperhaywood.com. The HSL colour has been looking pretty muddy recently, partly since it’s an orange-y hue this time of year, but mostly because sunrise and sunset weren’t being taken in to account properly. Before, the lightness value changed gradually between 12:01am and midnight. Now it looks a little more “sunny” in the daytime. Will need to keep monitoring the min/max values, yellow could be problematic.
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WordPress security resources
- Introduction to WordPress front end security: Escaping the things, a CSS-Tricks article
- WordPress front end security: CSRF and nonces, a CSS-Tricks article
- Step-by-step WordPress security guide from WP Beginner
- Wordfence, a security-focused WordPress plugin
- “Is shared hosting secure?” on Quora
- Let’s Encrypt, a free, automated, and open SSL Certificate Authority
- haveibeenpwned.com; check your email / password against existing data dumps
- 1Password, a cross-platform password manager
- PHP version calendar, don’t use an end-of-life release!
Links to a few of the security resources I find useful, some WordPress-specific and some more general.
A note about that “step-by-step” guide: it’s pretty decent, but IMO Wordfence is a better security plugin to go with. Sucuri is maybe more user-friendly, but Wordfence comes with more out-of-the-box (incl. two factor authentication and login limiting) and the settings seem more granular. Doesn’t hurt to try both though to see what’s the best fit.
Last edited 22 June 2019
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Website updated
Finally updated my website to include information and links for a few recent projects. Sam and I worked together to redesign the site. In return, I helped him move his domain to sambaldwin.info.
I’m quite excited about the colour of the text and favicon. The hue, saturation, and lightness are calculated according to the season, temperature, and time of day where I am.
There’s definitely a couple of issues to sort out, will get to those soon.
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Wind Map
Still very much enjoying Wind Map
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Work by Rafaël Rozendaal
Internet artist, really like his stuff, don’t like the artspeak on his bio page (but everyone does that, really, so ok).
The first piece of his that I came across was muchbetterthanthis.com via Grant Custer’s blog.