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Archive for September 3rd, 2026

Some notes on Ente as Authy replacement (and looking for a cross platform Stocard replacement)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/03

Ente's Mascot, Ducky, inviting people to Ente's source code repositoryAbout 2 years ago, Authy ceased desktop support (see September 2024 – Agust Tell HN: Twilio quietly removes Authy iOS app from Mac App Store, stops updates | Hacker News); back then I didn’t have time to look for a proper replacement as I was still recovering from the truckload of work moving to a new place and finishing the new place took.

Now I did have some more time and a friend mentioned the open source Ente Auth to me.

So below are some links about it, with the remark that I am also looking for a Stocard replacement which in a sense is structured similarly:

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Posted in 2FA/MFA, Authentication, Authy, Ente, LifeHacker, Loyalty Cards, Power User, Security, Stocard | Leave a Comment »

The Wayback Machine uses Wombat from Webrecorder (digipres.club/@webrecorder) (@webrecorder_io) / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/03

I really like non-descriptive product names. In this case it is Wombat from which its name it is hard to deduct what it does. In this case it’s Wombat from [Wayback Webrecorder (digipres.club/@webrecorder) (@webrecorder_io) / Twitter which is used by the Wayback Machine given the error messages displayed in for instance the Chrome Developer tools when displaying an archived page.

In fact, it is the key library when you look at the repository description [Wayback/Archive] webrecorder/wombat: Wombat.js client-side rewriting library.

When looking at all the [Wayback/Archive] Webrecorder repositories of the [Wayback/Archive] Webrecorder organisation, luckily only a few of them have a non-descriptive name. Too bad Wombat is one of them.

In order to function, Wombat replaces many methods that pages can use to navigate. It does that in a way that is virtually impossible to work around and this bit me a while ago when writing a Bookmarklet that would navigate out of an archived Wayback Machine and would navigate to the wrong URL:

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Posted in Chrome, Chrome, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Google, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »