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A bookmarks service, in its classic form, is a list of links: a title, an address and a few labels. This time I needed more: MP3s and PDFs, like synthesized podcasts for studying and their handouts, to listen to and read again while keeping track of where I left off, to share with a few people and to keep away from everybody else. My bookmarks have been public since 1998, and the previous version, bookmarks-v3.0, was a static site generated by Jekyll and published on GitHub Pages: it cost nothing, and for a list of public links it was good enough. The criterion stayed the same, spending as lit

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