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Mozilla Pocket to Raindrop

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As stated in Mozilla official blog post : Mozilla Pocket is shutting down. The service will be available until July 8th, after that, Pocket will enter export-only mode, users can export all the bookmarks before October 8th. If you want to keep your bookmarks, it’s time to migrate them to another service. Raindrop.io is a good alternative. This article will explain how to export all the content in Pocket and import it to Raindrop. Step-by-Step Migration Guide: From Pocket to Raindrop Go to getpocket.com/export , and make sure you can access the email in the left-top corner, Pocket will send the file to that address. Click the Export CSV File button. Go to your email and download the file. Pocket says:“Please allow up to 7 days to receive your export.” I don’t have many bookmarks and received the email in less than one minute. Sign in to your Raindrop account, then go to https://app.raindrop.io/settings/import , click the “Upload File” button, select the file and upload it. Wh...
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TikTok Refugees Fleeing to RedNote

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As TikTok will be banned on January 19th, many users are fleeing to other platforms. Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu is among the destinations. It is said that more than 700,000 new users joined Xiaohongshu in 2 days, according to Reuters . Photo by Declan Sun on Unsplash Xiaohongshu was founded in 2013, and most of the users were females in the first several years. The meaning of the app's name is Red Note. It was regarded as the Chinese version of Instagram, which also focuses on photo sharing. Now many male users are participating in the creation of content in all formats, texts, photos, live photos, videos in different lengths and live-streaming. I think it is more like Twitter, on which users could post content in all formats. The difference is that RedNote will transform your text post into a photo card, when you post text without a photo or video, while Twitter was designed to post text initially. Additionally, Twitter features a translation function that enab...
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How To Build An Archive Page for Blogger

Bloggers have discussed an archive page for blogger blogs, and the posts are grouped by month. Since I don’t have many posts, an archive page with posts archived by year is fine. Method 1 I asked Google Gemini, and it provided me with a piece of JavaScript code. The code works properly, if you would like to add an archive page, follow the steps below. 1 Go to layout, add a gadget, and choose the Blog Archive gadget. 2 Add a new page, and pick a name you like. The page name will be the slug in the page URL. 3 Switch to HTML mode and paste the following code. Set the robots.txt meta tag for the page and hit the Publish button. //This code was generated by Google's Gemini AI. <div id="custom-archive"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> function createArchive() { // 1. Get blog URL (Blogger provides this automatically) var blogUrl = window.location.protocol + "//" + window.location.host; // 2. Function to fetch pos...
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