- Internet Archive released the entire JSTOR Early Journal Content collection—450,000 pre-1923 articles (~2 TB)—for free bulk download and full-text indexing, with OCR text and metadata also available via JSTOR’s Data for Research service.  
- A Wired article on an open-source “bio-fab language” was shared; participants speculated it reflects Juul’s ongoing synthetic-biology design-automation work.  
- Rigel described building a Selenium-based Python class wrapper to scrape a JavaScript-heavy site, emphasizing the need for checkpoint/restart tolerance when processing millions of pages.  
- Kanzure recommended PhantomJS’s render() and renderBase64() methods as lighter-weight alternatives to Selenium for headless scraping with visual feedback.  
- Discussion noted frustration with sites that embed scripts inside tags and the importance of extracting URL lists before bulk downloading page sources.