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date    = "2022-12-12T19:44:56+00:00"
lastmod = "2022-12-12T19:44:56+00:00"
tags    = [ "musings" ]
author  = "tdro"
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Here's a muse; linking to external sites is probably one of the harder parts of
blogging. Pages can go `404` and you won't know exactly why,
{{< abbr urls "uniform resource locators" >}} change even though they're
supposed to be immutable.

To blog while having pointers to disparate sources requires checking for dead
links, and verifying that content relevancy hasn't changed. The solution is to
either archive everything (hard) or to not link at all (easy). High mutability
is one reason why people take pictures of online content --- it just works.