Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/10
While trying to fix some link rot in older blog posts, I found out that through CodeProject – Wikipedia that CodeProject died a relatively silent death in March 2026.
Too bad that most of the .zip content (the actual project files) has not been archived.
Unlike the Stack Exchange network, it looks like CodeProject did not go the LLM training route.
The timeline from that Wikipedia article (the actual links mostly died, except for the new Discord invite):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/20
To ease my blogging, I wrote two more Bookmarklets that help me navigate to or save from a Wayback machine archived page to Archive Today.
A key thing I learned over the past 2+ decades is that “the cloud” (i.e. cloud computing) is “just someone else’s computer” which tends to be unavailable right when you need it no matter the applicable service-level agreement.
Which means that a long while ago, I switched to archiving external links to both the Wayback machine and Archive Today.
Since the Wayback machine is my primary, it helps to have Bookmarklets to go from such an archived page to the equivalent one on Archive Today, or even save it if it isn’t there.
So I made two more Bookmarklets which I will illustrate using the example.org based links https://example.org and http://example.org:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/11
In nerd space, there is a big Archive Today controversy which comes down to these two things:
Over the last half year or so I noticed an increase in captaches, which skyrocketed over the last couple of weeks. My speculation is that this has to do with the controversy.
Their actions blew up far enough for Wikipedia to actively started replacing almost 700k links to archived content hosted on various domains of the Archive Today platform with content by other archival sites.
For my blog, with some 10k published and scheduled blog posts, my estimate is that I would need to replace at least 100k links: an effort that I cannot perform with the energy levels left after my cancer treatments in 2020.
What I can do is for future posts to use other archival sites, of which this is a short-list (all to their Wikipedia entries):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/30
Het was me al een tijdje opgevallen dat ik nauwelijks meer fysieke post van Movir kreeg.
Ik dacht aan een probleem bij de post, maar het bleek erger:
Toen ik een tijd terug een on-line profiel aangemaakt had ik een PDF van mijn profiel gemaakt zodat ik wist wat er was geregisteerd.
Daarin stond “Communicatievoorkeur Per post”.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/26
The description of [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – dessant/web-archives: Browser extension for viewing archived and cached versions of web pages, available for Chrome, Edge and Safari is missing Firefox and Opera, but in the meantime the extension is available in these stores for:
As a great example of how to write a browser plugin for all these architectures, it shows how to write this in mostly JavaScript with Vue.js with a tiny bit of play HTML.
Web Archives is a plugin that lets you search either the URL from the current browser tab, or a URL you type, within various archival sites (all Wikipedia links):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/02/23
I pulled this post forward from the blog queue in light of the recent Archive Today controversy (which started because of the Gyrovague article mentioned below). Please note that in this controversy, the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive plays no role: it is purely about the Archive Today behaviour. Apart from this remark above the line I left this blog post in the original form I wrote it in, as I liked it a lot and quite a few published and queued blog posts still depend on it.
From a while back, but still a historic relevant article: [Wayback/Archive] archive.today: On the trail of the mysterious guerrilla archivist of the Internet – Gyrovague
Via [Wayback/Archive] difference between archive today and wayback machine – Google Search
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/31
From 12ft – Wikipedia:
On July 17, 2025, the News Media Alliance reported that it had taken down the website.
It’s impossible to enjoy the content of online media by paying (for instance because payment systems are not compatible, but also because those media often have region blocks), so this is to longer ladders (and understanding how ladders work):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/25
Na elk jaar lijkt de lijst te verdwijnen, dus daarom gearchiveerd:
NB: Archive.is kan geen .xls bestanden archiveren.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/02
Quite a I while ago, I wrote Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA).
The bookmarklet has been very stable, but as of a week or so I need to press the Enter key for it to actually archive.
The reason is that Archive.is, also known as Archive Today, introduced a new URL parameter for auto-starting the archive of an URL.
The old one looked like this: https://archive.is/submit/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history
The new one like this: https://archive.is/submit/?anyway=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history&submitid=auT7eAltRDxCOGSjdoRMhu3H9d91VEFlvjVztfvNU8XO0ccAhji5DvTyqQew6rfm
The new submitid URL 40 character base64 parameter is being checked in the back end. One way of obtaining one by loading https://archive.is/ then wait for it’s completion and grab it from there.
The alternative is to wait for the submit page to fully load, then find the “save” button via its HTML <input type="submit" value="save"> and press it.
So that’s on the todo list for the updated Bookmarklet of the above blog post.
For now, I just have to press the Enter key for each archived page, I wonder how long that will last (:
Oh: to get the “do you want to save the page again” URL you will have to know the canonical URL first, as that ID is in the again URL, see the bold bits here:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26
Need to look into this further: [Wayback/Archive] Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust.
Likely running it on my blog requires JavaScript to be enabled which means going from the premium to the small business plan (at te time of writing from USD 8 to USD 25 per month: a 200+% increase).
Let’s first start with an example:
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