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Have people encountered Listing To Port?

http://listing-to-port.tumblr.com/

(I know, tumblr blog, but w/e)

They produce a substantial amount of quality writing, mostly in the form of lists of things. Usually somewhat strange things, such that one would not expect them to be in a list of that thing. Very good, very creative, very entertaining, no idea how whoever does this does it.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Stargazers - The Aviators

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flaksesomlys

I'd seen some stories of theirs, and even liked one enough that I had to reblog it for easy finding later (Six ways out of the bot factory) — but I hadn't realized they were running an entire blog with nothing but that type of thing, so clearly you've read more of their stuff than I have. Any particular ones you'd recommend?

From:

contrarianarchon

From:

brin_bellway

>>and then save literally all of them to a specially made hard-drive on my laptop.<<

I like you already.

(Listing to Port trends a bit horror-y for my tastes, but this is a very Correct response to liking a blog.)

(Do you use tumblr-utils?)

From:

contrarianarchon

... I wouldn't say they're reliably horror, more provoking strangeness/wonder, which sometimes leans horrific.

I do tend to try and save every cool thing I find on the internet.

(I use right-click-save-as or copying into a .txt file, or taking screenshots, depending on the exact content.)

I should really learn to scrape webpages properly, so I can just download someone's entire (non-tumblr?) blog on the automatic.

From:

brin_bellway

Not reliably, no; just trending.

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Saving to HTML, at least IME, also results in a folder with the other elements of the page, which means [you have to be careful to move the pair together] and [the increased number of files slows down phone syncing]. I prefer printing to PDF when I need a method along those lines.

While I do still use PDF printing and text-file copying sometimes, I've also been gradually acquiring more automation skill over the past few months. I highly recommend tumblr-utils (but zipping the results before copying them to other computers is a must; there are a *lot* of individual files in a tumblr-utils scrape), Bloxp has been handy, and lately I've been getting a handle on wget.

(wget has been super useful for many cases, but unfortunately it looks like the answer to "can I use wget to scrape *just* the Creations subforum of Alicornutopia without wasting storage space on the subforums I'm not particularly interested in" is "no, because it so happens that the subforum is delineated with a question mark instead of a slash; the wget programmers have vague plans to maybe add the ability to handle that someday". I have not figured out yet how I'm going to deal with that one.)

Sometimes I get overwhelmed with the number of things still on my to-archive list, but today I was looking at the stories section of my archive and realising just how far I've come.

Edited Date: 2019-01-22 05:05 am (UTC)

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contrarianarchon

Oh, helpful! I hadn't thought of print to PDF, and will possibly start doing that for certain types of tumblr page.

I'll have to look into those various tools when I have some time