Recovering Old Blog Posts with Wayback Machine and OpenClaw

I recently decided to recover some old blog posts I had lost when I abandoned WordPress years ago. Using the Wayback Machine, I was able to retrieve snapshots of my old blog from 2017-2018.

The story is a bit wild, considering it was my first eye-opening experience with OpenClaw.

Many years ago, I had a blog that I abandoned, and then later deleted. Recently, I had installed OpenClaw and wanted to test its powers. So, while walking laps at the gym, I sent it a task asking it to look at the way back machine for my blog and pull out all the posts. After some troubleshooting to get web_fetch and browser usage working, it starts off on the task. About 5 minutes goes by, and it reports that it has retrieved all the blog post and dropped them in my Obsidian notes. I Open up Obsidian from my phone and there they are nicely organized.

WHOA! This may not impress you, but this greatly impressed me as I realized that this is future of agentic AI.

Anyways, continuing the the story. Continuing to poke the agent, I asked it to go pull down this blog repository, and plan the integration of these post. It happily pulled down the repository and then came back, asking me if it wants me to use a coding agent like Claude or OpenCode. Again Impressed. I said yeah go install OpenCode and configure it to use the same LLM provider and token you’re using. A few minutes ago by, and I receive a reply, saying OpenCode is ready. I say proceed with the plan, it replies back with the plan and we iterate a few times to get it solidly planned out, flush out a plan and I kick off the build. Now here we are with their were recovered post.

Check out the list of all the old posts. Don’t judge me. I was a different person back then, with a different set of skills and a different set of technical needs…