Remember deep linking? That is, if you’ve ever done computing/science history. Deep linking was a nefarious act and for ultra brief periods (in some places) making a link (like this) was link stealing.

Basically, homepage links were a–ok, but deep links were bad, really bad, because customers skipped the front and arrived at the exact (product) page. Businesses died overnight (the hypo theory).

Deep linking is smartphone marketing lingo now and very much desired. My hunch is that something analogous to taking a screen shot will be the modern equivalent of that unworkable controversy.

Did you know that cPanel has a back end user–space API? I’ve yet to see a web front end user dashboard that’s reliable and consistent.

Some of you were curious. Text assistants and bots are booming, as shovelers seek the god oracle and magnum opus. Here’s the numbers for a naked robots.txt. Inferences, up to you.

1. Applebot/0.1 [20.1 MiB]
2. heritrix/3.4.0-20200304 [21.8 MiB]
3. YandexBot/3.0 [28 MiB]
4. GPTBot/1.0 [30.1 MiB]
5. IonCrawl [31.6 MiB]
6. CCBot/2.0 [40.6 MiB]
7. DataForSeoBot/1.0 [51.2 MiB]
8. SeznamBot/4.0 [58.6 MiB]
9. facebookexternalhit/1.1 [64.1 MiB]
10. Google-Read-Aloud [86 MiB]
11. PetalBot [91.3 MiB]
12. Barkrowler/0.9 [98.6 MiB]
13. SemrushBot/7~bl [141.1 MiB]
14. BLEXBot/1.0 [152 MiB]
15. AhrefsBot/7.0 [159.5 MiB]
16. MJ12bot/v1.4.8 [285.2 MiB]
17. bingbot/2.0 [373.4 MiB]
18. Googlebot/2.1 [535.2 MiB]
19. Bytespider [543 MiB]
20. DotBot/1.2 [806 MiB]
21. Amazonbot/0.1 [2.6 GiB]

Rule #1 of finding technical feeds; type ‘OPML’ into GitHub search. GitHub is like a social network for software engineers and I’m a conservationist of time.

Are you a safe kid? I’ve just had a memory of a past time in a library.

Two newer meta-ish search engines for encyclopedias (about 30+ wikis):

• https://encyclosearch.org/
• https://encycloreader.org/

On math, magic, and mathematical grimoires.. As I was “speedrun reading” about MathML days ago, I discovered an amazing digital library of mathematical functions. Boring, but why amazing? Take a look at this function and hover click on any of the variables to view the definition, and keep clicking on more variables for even more… definitions. That’s a legit library.

See, now all of us can roleplay as mages and mathematicians on the Internet.

Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)? I’ve thought about LaTeX/TeX strategies on the web for a bit ever since someone asked years ago about different approaches. I never got to poking around on my blog, but since then the masters have delivered unto us;

1. MathML (XML based web specification)
2. KaTeX
3. MathJax

In format conversion land we’ve been given; LaTeXML, make4ht, texmath, temml, and Pandoc.

I caught a glimpse of an interesting thing by chance. Meta Platforms aka Facebook hid the x from their login prompt on public pages–including government pages, then brought it back. ‘Twas on the desktop before mobile and perhaps (who knows) for a subset (as a test). A “login only public page” is for a near–distant future, set. Seriously though; developer documentation will become my final excuse to visit Facebook.

I came across a good article on finding video feed links from various (mostly western) sites. Odysee links have a funky format that are prefixed with https://odysee.com/$/rss + channel.

So this (channel):
https://odysee.com/@andkos.music:1

Becomes this (feed):
https://odysee.com/$/rss/@andkos.music:1