Linkgraphs are enjoyable • AndreGarzia.com

As far as I’m conscious, hyperlink graphs had been pioneered by Artemis calm web reader, you possibly can examine their tackle it as Artemis Link Graph. In their very own phrases:

Artemis Link Graph is an internet extension that tells you when the web page you might be viewing has been linked to in a put up from a web site you observe on Artemis.

You can use this extension to discove]r what web sites you take pleasure in are saying about completely different internet pages.

— Source: Artemis Link Graph | Artemis

It is a really neat function. It works by surfacing posts from websites you observe that point out the web page you are present studying. In an age of algorithimic timelines making an attempt to herd you into content material that enhance their metrics and the revenue for his or her shareholders, having such natural connections is a blessing.

I discussed in The Web Should Be A Conversation that I need to return to a human-centric internet as a substitute of this agentic bullshit we have been pressured into. Linkgraphs appear an exquisite instrument in that course trigger they supply fast, actionable, fascinating connections between what pursuits you and people you subscribed to.

Artemis is an excellent calm internet reader. If you are within the temper to strive a unique internet studying / weblog studying expertise, I consider it’s best to give it a strive.

I discover it fairly cute that two calm internet readers with cat mascots — Artemis and BlogCat — are each developed in Scotland, should be one thing within the water.

Inspired by Artemis, I made a decision to implement the identical function in BlogCat. Still, credit score is due and so they did it first.

In BlogCat, the linkgraph surfaces as a web page motion. If you are viewing a web page that has been linked in a put up from a web site you observe you will see the little cat popup.

If you click on the popup, you will see the record of posts that linked to the web page you are viewing.

I might like to see different running a blog purchasers (feed readers? Can we decide on a reputation for these sort of apps?) implementing such function.

How it’s carried out in BlogCat

I adopted Artemis very shut however did not use any of their code trigger the underlying implementation of information storage and normal workflow could be very completely different between each purchasers.

Artemis is a SaaS that exposes the linkgraph as a JSON that’s then learn by their extension and saved to session storage.

BlogCat is a WebExtension, a full internet reader inside Firefox. When you open the reader view, BlogCat fetches the feeds it must fetch after which calculates the linkgraph by extracting all of the hyperlinks from all of the posts and saving them to session storage. The linkgraph is barely rebuilt while you open the reader view (BlogCat does not do background fetching of feeds).