I‘ve seen a couple of established iOS developers gripe about SwiftUI and that they should have stuck with UIKit. Would you advise someone starting out with iOS development and zero Swift experience to use UIKit as well? Or is it more of an old dog, new tricks kind of issue?
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I now have my own Python module to write Safari WebArchives. Neat. And not too hard to implement.
So now Links also saves a WebArchive copy and triggers a Wayback savepoint.
I rewrote my webcatcher Python script yesterday. It is now leaner, meaner and more resilient against failed downloads. Links is coming together nicely. Pretty much all that is left is a nicer CSS for mobile devices and a web daemon so I can send stuff to Links from my iPhone.
Trying to decide between Trafilatua, Newspaper 4K and Readabilty for my Markdown and PDF creation.
Links Update
Links, my barebones bookmark and archival solution is slowly getting better.
Today I redid the CSS or started to. I still need to reimplement breakpoints for smaller devices.
Also I finally put the project under Git version control. Version control really is a godsend. The initial learning curve is not nothing. But once you get it, it’s awesome.
I still need to polish the Python script a bit and make it more error resilient.
First version of Links is online! It is still missing a few things and needs more polish, but it works.
I just checked Links v1.0.0 into my Git repository. Almost ready to deploy!
Slow progress on Links today. I didn’t have much time and spent what little I had chasing syntax errors. Here’s to a more successful tomorrow. I’m planning on getting my delete function working, add per user link databases, and add a dummy links collection for when you are not signed in.
Current status of Links, my barebones bookmark and archival tool:
- creating links via the site works
- the site now also offers a Markdown preview
- Markdown and PDF are saved as cleaned up versions
Still to do:
- make the archive script more robust
- delete links from the website
- some CSS design work
Links - a bookmarking/archival project
A personal bookmarking project is in progress, allowing users to save URLs as PDFs, Markdown, and Web Archives while displaying them in a simple list format without tags or categories.