On: Pinboard 2014 Expenses

[idlewords]

Yes. Sometimes not even one!

[kijin → idlewords]

Yeah, I still haven't made up my mind as to whether I should trust all my bookmarks with a guy who seems to have a knack for disappearing alone into strange corners of the world. Even if he is occasionally protected by a company of tanks and a Hind helicopter :)

[idlewords → kijin]

Just make daily backups. That goes for any bookmarking service you use.

[underwater → idlewords]

Couldn't you build that into Pinboard (via Dropbox or similar).

[idlewords → underwater]

Yeah, but then you're trusting me to do the backups for you. That's much less protection.

[jpwgarrison → idlewords]

yep, this in a crontab somewhere is all you need:

  curl -k -o ~/backups/pinboard-backups/pinboard-$(date +\%y\%m\%d).json 'https://api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?&auth_token=username:APItokenhere&format=json'

[underwater → idlewords]

I meant it as a defense against concern against the bus scenario.

The backups would run while the site is live and if it ever spontaneously disappears then users would have an up-to-date backup available.

[tnorthcutt → kijin]

Better than the other "cloud" options, which end up getting sold or shuttered every year or two.

Also, if you are a customer, you get to follow the hilarious twitter account.*

*This is not true; anyone can and should follow the hilarious twitter account.