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Hi! A couple of side-project updates: keeping my archival tool alive, ssh-over-web-browser tailored to my needs, and a slightly better dictation CLI. Archivist Updates I continue to use, and get a lot of value out of, Archivist. Since the original post about the project, six years ago (sic!), the tool got extended with collecting screenshots, finding similar items across all sources, and recently moved to my new Home Server, hosted as a permanent web app. For collecting screenshots, I use a two-tier system: I have a couple of Hammerspoon shortcuts overriding the default macOS ones, that take the screenshot, place it in Dropbox/Screenshots/ folder, and inject OCR text into the files through a combination of tinyocr and xattr. Dropbox only supports a subset of xattr, so this took some figuring-out, but I managed to find a way to sync them with the Home Server, with the OCR data surviving in the file. I could do OCR purely in Archivist and save some headaches, but the nice side-effect of…

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