NOTE: Here’s another article that is not about any of the "normal" topics of this newsletter: genealogy, history, current affairs, DNA, and related topics. However, I suspect some of this newsletter’s readers might be interested in setting up an Article Archiving Service (and I hope they do so).

Mozilla killed Pocket, but your bookmarks don't have to die. Here's how to self-host ArchiveBox - with a little help from ChatGPT - and take ownership of your reading archive.

Now that Pocket is shutting down, what are those of us who rely on article archiving to do? You could try switching to another cloud archiving service like Raindrop.io, but as nice a service as it is, it's run by just one dude in Kazakhstan.

If a billion-dollar company like Mozilla can't be bothered to keep its Pocket archiving service running, it's something of a risk to rely on a lone developer, no matter how talented or well-intentioned. 

Instead, how about self-hosting your own article archiving service on your own computer gear? That way, you own it all and nobody can shut it down.

As it turns out, there's an open-source project (of course there is!) called ArchiveBox that does just that. In this article, I'll show you how to set it up. In a subsequent article, I'll show you how to get whatever data you managed to recover from Pocket into ArchiveBox.

You can read the full article at https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-set-up-your-own-article-archiving-service-and-why-i-did-rip-pocket/.