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Jun 8, 2013 at 21:42
Between dependency conflicts, compilation failures, and lack of HTTPS support, finding a library to do a HTTPS GET has also been hard.

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I've written a website that archives all my posts/tweets/toots/skeets across different microblogging platforms! It's fun to be able to see similar posts that I wrote at completely different times. It also lets me edit links that have bitrotted.
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