Rolling your own links+ash

This post talks about my linkstash workflow and the small tools I built around it So, I help run a student tech community called HSP. We talk about cool stuff and share interesting links and articles we find during the week. I thought of an idea or rather an experiment that helps us maintain a neat list of all the links that were shared this week. HSP is all about knowledge sharing and building things in public. ref: “Working with the Garage Door up” Unfortunately, WhatsApp is our primary means of communication in college, it is very convenient — all our college groups rely on it, and not to mention apps such as Discord / Telegram may get blocked on college WiFi depending on the university IT policy. We primarily share links on our HSP Mentor+Mentee group chat and it spirals into cool discussions held loosely by half-broken reply threads. WhatsApp offers no public developer API. One way of collating links could be: exporting chats at the end of the week and running a python script to…