emma 🇵🇸
@emma.cafe
cute little weirdo ෴ designer, software eng @webrecorder.net, & noisemaker ﹆
The stuff I've been working on recently is finally public! I've spent the past bit revamping the social media site support in Browsertrix. We can capture much more content from Facebook and Instagram now, and I've also fixed Youtube video capture. webrecorder.net/blog/2026-07...
Social media improvements in Browsertrix • Webrecorder Blog
What’s new in the world of web archiving?
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turns out the ucg-fiber only has one poe port...... spent far too long trying to figure out why the poe-powerable esp32 i've been using wasn't working over ethernet
adopted a new practice of saying “vibed?” whenever someone describes a software bug. à la “vaxxed?”
ditching adobe is really hard when every alternative is either Flunkly™️ which is *almost* feature complete except for that one thing you do in Photoshop every single day or G.R.O.N.K., a FOSS app with the worst fucking UX you have ever seen in your life and no support for JPEGs for ethical reasons
i put together a new email template system for browsertrix & wrote a bit about it
Webrecorder@webrecorder.net · 12mo agoBrowsertrix 1.18 is out, with support for large seed lists and a new email system so invites, password resets, and everything else is clearer, smoother, and prettier. Also better QA and a setting to automatically fail a crawl when you get logged out. webrecorder.net/blog/2025-08...
it’s been fun being a test subject for this! hoping luna can find some funding for this and keep expanding it, it works quite well (for the most part) even as it is now
luna@l4.pm · last yr.i've been working on my own feedgen project throughout the past month with a goal to replace Discover, named nagare aka @nagare.pds.bsky.ln4.net it is very much not an easy feat, even harder when there's heavy cost constraints attached to it!
Andor is fun to watch but fyi, y'all should be pirating it, Disney+ is a priority target on the BDS list
“Trump did Covid-19” is a federally funded graphic-design shitpost i never could have asked for & i love how incomprehensible it is. my favorite part is that the page has a signature from Covid-19 itself. like damn, that must have been an expensive autograph.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.The White House has turned covid.gov into a conspiracy theory page.
much to consider with this "unlock with artist pro" button too
emma 🇵🇸@emma.cafe · last yr.soundcloud is the only modern website i've ever seen use border-style outset in 2025
soundcloud is the only modern website i've ever seen use border-style outset in 2025
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
If you're trans and based in Canada, my friend @torontopubliclibra.com made this neat site which can help make sense of the process for updating your IDs. Sharing because... yknow. tg-id.ca
TG I.D.
TG I.D. is an online resource collecting information on how to update legal names, gender markers, and identity documents as a trans, non-binary, Two-Spirit, or gender non-conforming individual living...
tg-id.ca
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I put together this mini-site for @webrecorder.net showcasing our US Government web archives Replace “.gov” with “.govarchive.us” on any of the supported government sites to seamlessly browse archived versions, including sites like USAID that are now gone Blog post in the quoted post!
Webrecorder@webrecorder.net · last yr.Ever wanted to restore a taken down site from a web archive, with link navigation and references intact? Our latest tooling make this simpler than ever! Announcing govarchive.us - a dynamic, web archive-powered mirror of US government sites! More details on our blog webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03...
Ever wanted to restore a taken down site from a web archive, with link navigation and references intact? Our latest tooling make this simpler than ever! Announcing govarchive.us - a dynamic, web archive-powered mirror of US government sites! More details on our blog webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03...
Introducing GovArchive.us & Mirroring Entire Sites with Web Archives • Webrecorder Blog
Introducing GovArchive.us and tooling to mirror web sites using web archives.
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One by one, the tools used in Montreal to monitor COVID-19 infections are removed. @inspq.qc.ca will stop posting wastewater data for our city after April 1st. This will help invisibilize further the spread of the virus, which is still very much circulating: see @moriartylab.bsky.social's dashboard.
Today we’re introducing Public Collections on Browsertrix, a new feature that lets you personalize, curate, and showcase your archives with the world. Read more on our blog webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03... #WebArchiving #Browsertrix
Introducing Public Collections in Browsertrix • Webrecorder Blog
Now you can curate, personalize, and share all your your crawls in one place.
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started updating my akkoma instance over the weekend and i broke a bunch of things so i’ll get it back up online at some point but it might be a while
i think making the internet more hospitable to trans women should be a priority for more people. including trans women
this is a tough one to write, but i have quite severe long covid. while i’ve been doing my best to manage it and not show it too much over the past year, i am not doing well, and it’s getting worse, not better. i am bed-bound the vast majority of the time. i have constant chest pain and palpitations
