Archivore

This one’s ai-slop too, as advertised on the about page — still inside the same long-running session that built archivore in the first place. That post closed by noting archivore’s “second half” — turning weeks of captured reading into actual published writing — was still on the roadmap. It isn’t anymore, mostly. A newsletter that reads the vault for you The new piece is a skill called last-week-in-review. It pulls every article archivore captured in the last week (or further back, if a week comes up short), filters out junk and marketing pages by actually reading them rather than trusting word counts, picks the fifteen most worth a reader’s time, and writes a short blurb on each — in my voice, run through an Economist style-guide pass for clarity and brevity. Two issues have gone out so far, at /newsletter/. ...

This one’s ai-slop, as advertised on the about page — built with Claude Code over a couple of months of on-and-off sessions. Most people who read a lot online never see any of it again. Someone opens an article, skims it, closes the tab, and forgets it — buried inside browser history nobody searches. Archivore, a small command-line tool, exists to fix that one habit at a time. The idea is simple: capture everything worth keeping, automatically. Archivore scans browser history since its last run, picks out links from Hacker News, Reddit, and X, downloads the linked article, and converts it to Markdown. Nothing requires manual saving or tagging. Opening a link in a browser is enough. ...