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Mitchellpkt / auto_repo_archiver

Uses the Wayback Machine to archive GitHub repos mentioned in arXiv writeups
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Holy ligatures batman #3

Open Mitchellpkt opened 1 year ago

Mitchellpkt commented 1 year ago

Discovering that many broken links are not rotten but rather broken by ligatures. For example, "finn" (should be 4 letters) being hyperlinked as "finn" (the "fi" ligature + "n" + "n") leading to 404's. Identifying these could be a whole project in and of itself...

Mitchellpkt commented 1 year ago

(Note typically the problem is that the true repo url does NOT use ligatures, but writeups DO hyperlink to urls with ligatures)