Phrase of the year: "emotional support typewriter"!
h/t Elisa Cristina Makoon-Singh
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Yeesh, Miami’s WR room is deeeeeep. True freshman Vance Spafford with an absolutely absurd TD catch while getting mugged by two defenders. Guy is probably 8th on the depth chart.
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I pay ESPN for their streaming service. Just now getting a chance to watch the Miami game and am trying to catch up, but they have unskippable 3 minute ad breaks at every single opportunity. Such bullshit. I think I’m just going to cancel and stream from sketchy sources instead.
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Hoo-boy, just seeing the Automattic drama. Not surprised…
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My XTEINK X4 got me reading again. My new X4 Pro arrived last week. Great little device, and the addition of a front light and touch screen make it nearly perfect. Those pogo pins, tho…
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Finished my re-read of Mistborn era one earlier this week. I had forgotten just how satisfying the ending is. It’s equal parts emotional, beautiful, and surprising. Everything fits together neatly and you’re left with a deep mythology of gods, forces in opposition, and harmony. 🤘🔥
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Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for saving pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Yes this is a lot like yesterday’s tip, except for archiving a page, rather than looking it up.
For example if you try looking up a page in the Internet Archive and it’s not there.
Or if you find an “interesting” page, and want to blog it later, you may want to save a copy of it in the Internet Archive as you are seeing it today, because when you look later it may have changed (or gone away).
I used to do this by typing "https://web.archive.org/save/" into the browser address bar and then pasting the link I want to save in the archive.
Again this is not really a “search engine”, however Firefox’s search engine shortcuts simplifies this greatly (less typing).
Here’s how to create a save shortcut for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)
2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column
3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button
4. enter "Internet Archive Save" into the Search engine name field (without quotes)
5. enter "https://web.archive.org/save/%s" into the URL field (without quotes)
6. enter "ias" into the Keyword field (without quotes)
When viewing a page that I want to save in the Internet Archive:
1. copy its link
2. activate the browser address bar (cmd-L does this in Firefox and Safari)
3. type "ias " (without the quotes)
4. paste the link I had copied earlier, and press return
Wait a few seconds (could take up to a few minutes) and the Internet Archive should save the page and show you the saved version.
If it fails for any reason (happens sometimes), likes takes a while and then displays something like:
"Sorry / Job failed"
You can click the "Return to Save Page Now" link on the page, and try pasting the link one more time into the text input box and pressing return.
If it says something like
"The target server blocks access to [URL]. (HTTP status=403)"
(literally happened to me today)
or some other HTTP status error code (5xx or 4xx), then you can try emailing the IT staff of the site you were trying to archive by emailing "webmaster@" the domain of that URL and perhaps CC: help@ that domain.
E.g. if the URL was https://example.com/some-path then you would email "webmaster@example.com, help@example.com".
With something like:
----
Dear [Domain Name] Webmaster,
Could you check your server configuration and explicitly allow the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to make historical archive copies of your pages?
This is important for the history of the open web, and greatly helps journalists, bloggers, and historians.
Please allow their User Agent: "archive.org_bot" to crawl and archive your site. More info on their "archive.org_bot" here: https://archive.org/details/archive.org_bot
Thank you for your consideration!
[sign your name]
----
Replace the two [ bracket phrases ] the domain name of the link you were trying to archive and your name respectively.
Good luck and happy internet archiving!
Previously: https://tantek.com/2026/249/t1/internet-archive-wayback-machine-search-shortcut
This is my sixth #WASSUP #WASSUP2026 post, and fourth useful web tip for September.
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #save #searchShortcut #Firefox #FirefoxSearch #archive #archives #tip #webTip #browserTip #webBrowserTip #archiveTip
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Hey San Diego, come out to a Mutual Aid Comedy Show on September 19th! All proceeds benefit We All We Got SD.
Lineup: Shannon Hardy, Geoff Grooms, Max Kerwien, Pedro Martinez, Lauren Gural.
Info/tickets and original Instagram post.
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Today’s #WASSUP tip: a search shortcut for looking up pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Ever click on a link for an article or photo and it’s not found (404), or redirects to a home page, or otherwise is not what you expect?
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archives webpages (that allow it) and quite often you can lookup broken links in the archive.
I often do this by typing "https://web.archive.org/web/" into the browser address bar and then pasting the link I want to lookup, because I know some of the Internet Archive’s URL patterns.
Though it’s not really a “search engine”, I realized I could use the search engine shortcuts feature of Firefox to simplify this greatly.
Here’s how to create a search shortcut for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)
2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column
3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button
4. enter "Internet Archive" into the Search engine name field (without quotes)
5. enter "https://web.archive.org/web/%s" into the URL field (without quotes)
6. enter "ia" into the Keyword field (without quotes)
Now if a link I follow fails to load (404) or is otherwise broken, I can:
1. copy that link (I may have to go back to the previous page and right-click choose "Copy Link")
2. activate the browser address bar (cmd-L does this in Firefox and Safari)
3. type "ia " (without the quotes)
4. paste the link I had copied earlier, and press return
Presto, an Internet Archive result for that link.
If you’re a frequent user of the Wayback Machine, hopefully this will save you some time.
And if not, try it anyway for the next time you click on a link and it seems broken.
This is my fifth #WASSUP #WASSUP2026 post, and third useful web tip for September.
#InternArchive #WaybackMachine #search #searchShortcut #Firefox #FirefoxSearch #searchEngine #archive #archives #PageNotFound #404 #404Error #Error404 #tip #webTip #browserTip #webBrowserTip #searchTip
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Kimi Antonelli is absolutely incredible. One of the best drives I’ve ever seen. #F1
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So I think Miami is going to be good at football this year.
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Miami better beat Stanford by six scores to redeem week one…
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Bring back Paul Johnson, you cowards.
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The #Blaugust 2026 blogging challenge had a nice set of awards this year based on reaching a certain number of posts published:
* 1* — Newbie Blogger. *if it was your first time doing Blaugust
* 5+ — Bronze
* 15+ — Silver
* 25+ — Gold
* 31+ — Rainbow Diamond
From https://nerdgirlthoughts.game.blog/2026/07/15/blaugust-2026-is-coming/.
These levels, and the total for the duration (rather than one per day) made the challenge more inviting, accessible, and fun, removing (most of) the stress of a typical daily challenge for a month.
When I started the Web And Standards September Useful Posts (#WASSUP) blogging challenge, I said it was similar to Blaugust and noted “30 posts during the month of September”. While I adopted Blaugust’s total posts for the duration (rather than daily) aspect, I meant to include such levels too.
James (@jamesg.blog) reminded me of this in his first WASSUP post yesterday:
* https://jamesg.blog/2026/09/02/hide-on-desktop-mobile-css
and noted explicitly:
“I am not planning to write every day about web development per the challenge, but I will try my best to share a few HTML and CSS tips throughout the month!”
After a bit of brainstorming in the #indieweb cafe channel and some further thoughts, again, inspired by the Blaugust levels, here are the #WASSUP2026 levels to start with:
* 1 ⭐️ Starter. Congrats on starting the challenge!
* 5 ✨ Weekly Tipster. Post once per week, or at least 5 times for the duration.
* 8 🕸 Weekends Weaver. Post every weekend day, or at least that same number, 8 times.
(Thanks to James for this suggestion!)
* 22 ❇️ Weekdays Wizard. Post every weekday, or at least that same number, 22 times.
* 30 💠 Superbly Useful. Post at least 30 times during the month.
I’ve updated the original post to include these awards, and they’re all self-assessed.
https://tantek.com/2026/244/t1/september-blogging-challenge-wassup
Let’s see your useful posts about the web or open web standards!
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How to add MapQuest with a search shortcut to your Firefox:
1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item)
2. select "🔍 Search" from the left column
3. click the [ + Add search engine ] button
4. enter "MapQuest" into the Search engine name field (without quotes)
5. enter "https://www.mapquest.com/search/%s" into the URL field (without quotes)
6. enter "m" into the Keyword field (without quotes)
If you already had an "m" search shortcut for another search engine, you may need to first edit that search engine (click the pencil ✏️ icon next to it) in the list of "Additional search engines", and remove/replace the existing "m" with something else.
This is my third #WASSUP #WASSUP2026 post, and second useful web tip for September.
#MapQuest #search #searchShortcut #Firefox #FirefoxSearch #searchEngine #map #maps #GoogleMaps #AppleMaps #LakeOntario #tip #webTip #browserTip #webBrowserTip #searchTip
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If you find a wiki page seemingly from a MediaWiki, but without a "View History" link, here’s a tip for how to find it.
Example: the old HTML Working Group (WG) wiki at W3C
* https://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Main_Page
Note the warning at the top: “This wiki has been archived and is now read-only.”
Aside: many years ago, each group at W3C had their own MediaWiki install, in a different path and disconnected from both every other group’s wiki, and the top level general W3C wiki (http://www.w3.org/wiki). I pointed out this made no sense, since groups more often than not had overlaps in documentation, technology, practices and would of course benefit from wiki-syntax interlinking. This was never really fixed at an infrastructure level, it had to be fixed at a cultural level, convincing working groups one by one to use the general W3C wiki, and ignore any WG-specific wiki. The other apparent hazard of having a WG-specific wiki is they can be (and have been) shutdown or frozen (like the example given), breaking any chance of fixing typos, other minor errors, or creating redirects to where the work has been restarted subsequently.
Note also the lack of a "View History" link as a tab top right adjacent to the content area (or anywhere else on the page).
This is likely because the page has been archived as static HTML, preserving the markup and styling, but removing any editing or history browsing or diffing or any other form submission based features that would require a dynamic backend like MediaWiki.
Here is how to find such a page’s history:
1. Find the “last modified” date in the footer and note the year, month, day.
2. Check for the page in the Internet Archive, e.g. prepend its URL with "https://web.archive.org/web/"
3. If there’s (presumably) still no "View History" link, look at the year month day numbers in the URL — the first 8 digits after "/web/" E.g. "20260512" for this page as of today.
4. Replace those 8 digits with the year, month, day noted in step 1, with 4, 2, 2 digit numbers respectively. E.g. "20150623" for this page. Press return to load that.
5. You may have to "close toolbar" the (x) in the top right of the page content.
6. Note the "View History" link, click it.
Presto, view history on a former MediaWiki page that’s been archived to static HTML.
This is my second #WASSUP #WASSUP2026 post, and first useful web tip.
#wiki #wikiPage #MediaWiki #ViewHistory #W3C #HTMLWG #wikiArchived #readOnly #staticHTML #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #LastModified
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"text": "If you find a wiki page seemingly from a MediaWiki, but without a \"View History\" link, here\u2019s a tip for how to find it.\n\nExample: the old HTML Working Group (WG) wiki at W3C\n* https://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/Main_Page\n\nNote the warning at the top: \u201cThis wiki has been archived and is now read-only.\u201d\n\nAside: many years ago, each group at W3C had their own MediaWiki install, in a different path and disconnected from both every other group\u2019s wiki, and the top level general W3C wiki (http://www.w3.org/wiki). I pointed out this made no sense, since groups more often than not had overlaps in documentation, technology, practices and would of course benefit from wiki-syntax interlinking. This was never really fixed at an infrastructure level, it had to be fixed at a cultural level, convincing working groups one by one to use the general W3C wiki, and ignore any WG-specific wiki. The other apparent hazard of having a WG-specific wiki is they can be (and have been) shutdown or frozen (like the example given), breaking any chance of fixing typos, other minor errors, or creating redirects to where the work has been restarted subsequently.\n\nNote also the lack of a \"View History\" link as a tab top right adjacent to the content area (or anywhere else on the page).\n\nThis is likely because the page has been archived as static HTML, preserving the markup and styling, but removing any editing or history browsing or diffing or any other form submission based features that would require a dynamic backend like MediaWiki.\n\nHere is how to find such a page\u2019s history:\n1. Find the \u201clast modified\u201d date in the footer and note the year, month, day.\n2. Check for the page in the Internet Archive, e.g. prepend its URL with \"https://web.archive.org/web/\"\n3. If there\u2019s (presumably) still no \"View History\" link, look at the year month day numbers in the URL \u2014 the first 8 digits after \"/web/\" E.g. \"20260512\" for this page as of today.\n4. Replace those 8 digits with the year, month, day noted in step 1, with 4, 2, 2 digit numbers respectively. E.g. \"20150623\" for this page. Press return to load that.\n5. You may have to \"close toolbar\" the (x) in the top right of the page content.\n6. Note the \"View History\" link, click it.\n\nPresto, view history on a former MediaWiki page that\u2019s been archived to static HTML.\n\nThis is my second #WASSUP #WASSUP2026 post, and first useful web tip.\n\n#wiki #wikiPage #MediaWiki #ViewHistory #W3C #HTMLWG #wikiArchived #readOnly #staticHTML #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #LastModified",
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