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Spending some time to clean up old links in blog posts and comments. A lot of things have gone away, pretty sad to see. So long Charticulator, Circos, iCharts, kartograph, Kuler, a bunch of yearly EuroVis and VIS workshop sites (BELIV!), and a whole lot of people's academic websites.

Robert Kosara

@eagereyes.org

I think it's really sad that universities don't feel the need to keep former professors' websites up. These aren't just little vanity websites, they often host important research data and papers. Going through my old conference reports, about half the links to projects and materials are now dead.

5/7/26, 7:58 pm0 reposts2 likes

Robert Kosara

@eagereyes.org

5 July

Good use of LLMs though, I had Claude build some scripts, and then Fable orchestrated 25 Haiku agents to classify uses of links into incidental (could break removed automatically) and "load-bearing" (hey, it's Claude after all!).

Robert Kosara

@eagereyes.org

5 July

I still need to clean up about 300 of the latter, but Claude fixed (or built scripts to fix) the other ~800 links. I would never have done that by hand, obviously. Also, updated almost 2,500 links from HTTP to HTTPS and checked that they still work.