The long term trend in software UIs seems to be away from 'saving'. Games autosave, websites save settings as soon as you change them, and online document editors don't even allow you to manually save!
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I like the idea of tools like Pinboard or Karakeep that let you save copies of websites you've bookmarked.
I'm considering just writing a script that saves web pages as a .md in a private git repository though.
It feels crude. I think I get essentially all the benefits though?
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I'm considering using WebP more: for example, my websites would load faster and browsers have supported it since 2020: https://caniuse.com/webp
That said, GitHub just added support in August 2025, so I suspect I'd still find use cases that don't work yet:
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I find it fascinating how some businesses have scheduled downtime for their websites (e.g. my electricity provider last weekend), but others don't.
I suspect it's primarily culture. You generally need to turn off electricity to do work, so your other tooling may reflect that.