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Kul och inte så lite speciellt att snacka med Farzad Farzaneh i P4 Stockholm om sl-map.gunnar.se och biljettkoll.se

• STHLM ZINE FEST Vi är nu glada att kunna släppa vårat festivalprogram med workshops och filmvisning! (sthlmzinefest.wordpress.com)
• Medieanalytikern: Därför satsar Aftonbladet på radio När Mediemyndigheten drar in NRJ:s sändningstillstånd får Aftonbladets nya radiokanal ta över frekvensen. (svt.se)
• U2 Propaganda Days of Ash EP U2 Propaganda Days of Ash EP U2 DAYS OF ASH - VIDEOS American Obituary The Tears Of Things Song Of The Future Wildpeace One Life At A Time Yours Et… (propaganda.u2.com)
• The bare minimum for syncing Git repos I have some personal Git repos that I want to sync between my devices – my dotfiles, text expansion macros, terminal colour schemes, and so on. (alexwlchan.net)
• Fem journalister som löst Palmemordet Journalist: Anders Leopold (tillsammans med polisen Börje Wingren). (journalisten.se)

Links break. It’s one of the sad facts of the web — a blog post you linked to five years ago might just be gone today. The domain expired, the server was shut down, or the page was quietly removed. This is called link rot, and studies suggest that over 25% of all web links eventually stop working.

I built Wayback Link Preserver to do something about it, specifically for Micro.blog.

What it does

The plugin scans the external links in your blog posts and checks if they’re still alive. For broken links, it looks up the Internet Archive Wayback Machine for an archived copy. If one exists, a small green “View archived copy” badge appears next to the link, giving your readers a one-click fallback to the content you originally linked to.

Working links are left completely untouched. No icons, no styling, nothing changes.

How it works

When a reader visits one of your posts, two things happen:

1. Every external link gets a quick liveness check. These run in parallel and are fast — usually under a second for a typical post.
2. For any link where the server didn’t respond (expired domain, server offline, DNS failure), the plugin queries the Wayback Machine to find an archived snapshot.

Results are cached in the reader’s browser, so repeat visits don’t trigger any new requests.

The whole thing runs client-side — no server needed, no database, no background jobs. It’s just JavaScript that gets injected via the Micro.blog plugin system.

What it can’t do

Since the plugin runs in the browser, it can only detect server-level failures: domains that no longer exist, servers that are offline, connections that time out. It cannot detect a 404 page on an otherwise working server — the server still responds, but with an error page. Detecting that would require a server-side component, which Micro.blog’s plugin architecture doesn’t support.

Inspired by

Automattic and the Internet Archive recently released a Wayback Machine Link Fixer for WordPress. It’s a great plugin with server-side link checking, background jobs, and proactive archiving. I wanted something similar for Micro.blog, adapted to the constraints of a static site.

Try it

The plugin is open source and available on GitHub: wayback-link-preserver

You can install it from the Micro.blog plugin directory, or add it manually via Design → Edit Custom Themes → New Plug-in.

If you care about your links surviving the years, give it a try.

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• Transporttyper — Spårväg, pendeltåg och båtar har egna färger
• Destinationer — Se vart fordonet ska, t.ex. “3 mot Södersjukhuset”
• Linjer & stationer — Spårväg och pendeltåg visas på kartan
• Lagerpanel — Filtrera trafikslag

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• Rockarkivet får 230 000 cd-skivor från Stockholm Under fem veckors tid rullar en lastbil i veckan till Hultsfred med cd-skivor och hyllor från Sveriges Radios grammofonarkiv. (vimmerbytidning.se)
• Happy 25th birthday to the manifesto for agile software development! 11th-13th February 2001 is the occasion of the most famous skiing holiday in software. (sicpers.info)
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• Wes Cook and the Centralia McDonald’s Mural This post is about a found mural, a lost artist, and a conference talk. (cabel.com)
• I dag skriver NRK.no sin første artikkel i nytt publiseringssystem I 20 år har journalistene i NRK skrevet artikler til NRK.no i Polopoly. (nrkbeta.no)
• ”I Sverige är jag förövare – här är jag en hjälte” Blenda - 56 minStaffan Hildebrands nya liv del 1/3 Den hyllade svenska filmregissörens tonårsfilmer var med och formade en generation. (svd.se)
• Marie Göranzon: ”De värsta jävla svinen var i princip döda under metoo” Jag fattar först inte om det är bråk på riktigt eller en scen från föreställningen ”Slutspelat. (dn.se)
• ”Det här är ett extremt ovanligt material” För fyra år sedan kom avslöjandet – inflytelserika filmaren Staffan Hildebrand hade haft sexuella relationer med unga tonårskillar. (svd.se)

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