Dragan Espenschied @despens@digipres.club

Say "technology" one more time…

Annotated some code changes that make 2000-era snowfall JavaScripts work on contemporary browsers: https://github.com/despens/restoration.geocities.institute/commit/f0933ffa7297e599dddff9cf8ba651d06886a0ca?diff=split

Blog post:
https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/6620

Most likely @ashley ?😉

Does anybody have a script or other source that generates registration numbers for The Palace clients?

After many months of constant migration grind with my colleague this morning I turned off six cloud vms!

Rhizome is supporting WBStack, a Wikibase hosting service that offers Linked Data infrastructure including a query service on demand: https://addshore.com/2019/11/an-introduction-to-wbstack/

FINALLY finished migrating the Theresa Duncan CD-ROM games to https fully… I was thinking, "not during my lifetime," but here they are! https://sites.rhizome.org/theresa-duncan-cdroms/emulators/

Returning from WikidataCon.

If the only alternative to moving the complete organization to HTTPS is just going offline forever I might consider doing that...

Uses Webrecorder's pywb proxy recording feature to capture the web recources a script is requesting *without that script even noticing*! This is pretty good when system proxy settings are respected, of course it will only be perfect once the proxy can be used transparently.

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From bucket to bucket
Cloud across cloud

Preserving servers by the dozen over here!

...looks like I have a long weekend ahead of me.

I have been hearing people call XML all sorts of things, but never "plain"

My hope is that we'll make enough progress so that collectors and collecting institutions will be more comfortable acquiring and taking care of VR artworks.

I'll keep posting on @despens@twitter.com about what's going on, hopefully reaching a larger audience than the preservation heads that are around here.

The case study I'm bringing is Aviary, a work by artist Sara Ludy, that she's been developing since 2017, across several iterations of Unity.

Friends, I'm going to iPRES for a VR preservation workshop: together with my es colleagues Claudia Röck, Tom Ensom, and Jack McConchie there will be some efforts to make artists' virtual reality projects more portable, and develop a few terms that enable us to talk about the variabilities in each.

Getting all layers of Photoshop files as separate PNGs:

https://gist.github.com/despens/5c95ebe086e4bfde8b638e91204fed29