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title: Userscript for fixing (most of) the broken links on The Old New Thing
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date: 2024-10-13 00:00
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related: oldnewthing-link-unfucker-install/index
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originally-zola: oldnewthing-link-unfucker-4
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<p><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/">The Old New Thing</a> is a
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long-running blog by Raymond Chen that contains a treasure-trove of
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information on old Windows (among others).
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Over the years the blog's moved around different domains and backends,
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which have had the effect of breaking many of the internal links.
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You can often find your way to the intended post with some URL hackery, but
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it would be nice not to have to do that, you know?</p>
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<p>So because of that I wrote
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<a href="https://ahti.space/git/nortti/oldnewthing-link-unfucker">oldnewthing-link-unfucker</a>,
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which automates most of the work.
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If it recognizes a link pointing to an old url it'll rewrite it to point to
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the modern URL for the post, or failing that, the day it was posted.
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Any URL thus modified will get a 𝌡 (the Taixuanjing tetragram for 'change')
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after it to mark it's been changed.</p>
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<p>It's a userscript, so to use it paste it to any userscript manager you
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like.
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I use
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<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/fi/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/">GreaseMonkey</a>.</p>
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