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Relatedly, I was reading software engineering at google and came across the chapter about being able to find things; they have a URL shortener internally that w
by dijit 4y ago
Relatedly, I was reading software engineering at google and came across the chapter about being able to find things; they have a URL shortener internally that works a little like AOL keywords from back in the day it sounded like. With human readable URLs so things like the employee handbook could easily be found at “go/handbook” or if you were looking for information on blaze then “go/blaze” would link to the docs.
So, I was trying to find a URL shortnener which allowed for pretty links similar to what the internal “go/“ site supports.
I couldn’t find anything, and it seemed simple enough so I made it:
https://github.com/dijit/redirector-rs https://github.com/dijit/redirector-rs
- rincebrain 4y agoThe reason URL shorteners have mostly gone away, AFAICT, outside of ones that a company provides for its own links only, is that they got used a lot for spam and malware campaigns. I miss the functionality a lot for a number of not malicious use cases, but I don't see a way to avoid that problem at the moment.