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Am also thinking of rep points. They'll all vanish into thin air.
More importantly, have bookmarked several articles. Now, going through all those bookmarks, and downloading what I feel are important, is also a time-consuming exercise.
modified yesterday.
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Amarnath S wrote: thinking of rep points. They'll all vanish into thin air.
I was thinking about the same thing. It's kind of a bummer. 
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rep points
In some deep corner of the mind was the hope that it would one day get converted into cash. 
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I've been saving (locally) articles for years. Rep points? That's just a game IMO.
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I don't plan to. I just have too many articles. Even thinking about backing them up freaks me out. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: Even thinking about backing them up freaks me out
I know it's quite painful.
But most of my articles I wrote so I'd remember the content better and so I could refer back to them.
I've referred to my article on SQLLocalDb tool usage (Dev's User Guide To SqlLocalDb (Sql Express)[^]) numerous times over the years.
I definitely grabbed that one.
I also wrote 5 chapters of Electronics For Makers which exists here an nowhere else.
Backing them up isn't too bad, if you,
1. go to search & search for your author name (that'll give you a list of your articles in reverse chrono order (newest first)
2. open each one in a new tab
3. click "get html for article"
4. save as
Not too bad.
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But there's the code and everything too. It's not all on github, although i think most is
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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honey the codewitch wrote: But there's the code and everything too
Yeah, the code is the one challenge. The save as saves the css, html and even the individual images but not the code. Kind of a pain.
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I always made PDF backups but now also have HTML backups.
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I probably should have done that from the beginning. Too late now.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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It's a good thing I haven't written as many articles as you! 
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I asked Copilot about your sig line and here's what it told me (below).
Very interesting, I had never heard of that.
Copilot said: This phrase originates from the ancient Greek poet Archilochus and has been popularized by the philosopher Isaiah Berlin in his essay "The Hedgehog and the Fox"1. It contrasts two different ways of thinking and approaching the world:
Foxes are seen as versatile and adaptable, drawing on a wide range of experiences and strategies. They know many things and can handle various situations with flexibility.
Hedgehogs, on the other hand, focus on a single, overarching principle or idea. They know one big thing and apply it consistently to everything they encounter.
In essence, the phrase suggests that while foxes are cunning and resourceful, hedgehogs are steadfast and focused23. This metaphor is often used to describe different types of thinkers or problem-solvers.
Do you see yourself more as a fox or a hedgehog in your approach to programming and technology?
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Not really one or the other as far as software goes, but a hedgehog when it comes to some other things.
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Well, I mean... I have all the files I wrote for them and the zip files I submitted, sooo...
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I have a large list of articles I've accumulated over the years. I use the Print view, then right-click, Save As, MHTML. While it does include images (in a single file) what it doesn't do is include the associated downloads.
[Edit]
Is everybody doing this right now? CP is being rather slow...would hate to see some DB go down, and nobody to bring it back up...
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Quote: CP is being rather slow...
Don't feel it is slower than usual, for me it response still very good 
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raddevus wrote: I've begun the (painful) work to save all of my CP articles to my local drive.
But ChatGPT has all that done for you.
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I just backed up my articles and will post revised versions of them at Github when I have the cycles.
/ravi
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Someone should really write some code for backing up articles to github 
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Given I have 260 articles and 8 tips/tricks, that's quite a chore. Almost worth hiring someone.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Given I have 260 articles and 8 tips/tricks,
Wow! I feel your pain. I only have 88 articles & it is seriously painful.
Many of them I will just "leave behind".
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raddevus wrote: I've begun the (painful) work to save all of my CP articles to my local drive.
All of my articles are written in Markdown, except for a few early ones, all written locally before uploading. I've done this as I've had a bad experience years ago with PlanetSourceCode....
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Dear MS,
Please stop messing with my desktop background. Although your pictures are pretty, I actually USE my machines for work. I set the background to a nice solid color THAT I LIKE. It reduces eye strain. It's comfortable. It's home.
So, you update your OS "for security patches" <-- lying sons of bitches and change my desktop background to "let's send him a new picture..."
If you came into my office and started typing on my keyboard, I would grab your hands. I don't care if you are my wife, girl friend, mistress, child, or random person - you do not elephant with my computer.
To MS Marketing - you are obviously working at turning your OS into a data mining device. Meanwhile, you cannot fix the bugs. Good bye.
Charlie Gilley
“Microsoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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Red canals bear dates. (9)
P, P & P - we take a 30 minute penalty, give others a go first?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Red canals (anagram)
Calendars (dates)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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