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Is this a general thing? I thought it was specific to my former employer (F5). We used go/(foo) extensively and there was numerous hotlinks for all sorts of int

Is this a general thing? I thought it was specific to my former employer (F5). We used go/(foo) extensively and there was numerous hotlinks for all sorts of internal services as well as a pretty interesting interface to design your own. I had thought it was an internal service developed internally. It looks like our internal version was a lot better than this open source version, at least by the screenshots.

Sebguer 4y ago
It originated at Google, but at this point most BigTech or places founded by former BigTech have their own version. There's even a SaaS version: https://www.golinks.io/ https://www.golinks.io/
- a_k_p 4y ago
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- ninawalters 4y ago
  Hey! I work for GoLinks, just wanted to thank you for the shout-out!
darth_avocado 4y ago
Yeah I had this in Square and at Twitter
saulpw 4y ago
I wrote the one for F5, in 2011 I believe. I didn't know specifically about Google's at the time, but the general concept was in the air. I was inspired by the old-schoool CompuServe (or was it AOL?) "go <keyword>" command. Bill Booth worked to get f5go open-sourced a few years after that [1]. And I'm glad you appreciated f5go's additional features; my personal favorite is the "lists" feature: a single go/ link can become a list of links very easily. Very useful for gathering research on a topic into a single place. I keep wanting to setup a personal f5go server so I can share short mnemonic links that might be lists lke this. [1] https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5go https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5go
- mlindner 4y ago
  Hello fellow former F5er! I was there from late 2016 through early 2021. I left as I wasn't a fan of how things were heading and I also found the general software hygine to be quite bad and I kept wanting to use more local static analysis as a normal part of development, which was difficult given the convoluted build process for the software. I worked on TMM.

Sebguer 4y ago

It originated at Google, but at this point most BigTech or places founded by former BigTech have their own version. There's even a SaaS version: https://www.golinks.io/ https://www.golinks.io/

a_k_p 4y ago
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ninawalters 4y ago
Hey! I work for GoLinks, just wanted to thank you for the shout-out!

darth_avocado 4y ago

Yeah I had this in Square and at Twitter

saulpw 4y ago

I wrote the one for F5, in 2011 I believe. I didn't know specifically about Google's at the time, but the general concept was in the air. I was inspired by the old-schoool CompuServe (or was it AOL?) "go <keyword>" command. Bill Booth worked to get f5go open-sourced a few years after that [1]. And I'm glad you appreciated f5go's additional features; my personal favorite is the "lists" feature: a single go/ link can become a list of links very easily. Very useful for gathering research on a topic into a single place. I keep wanting to setup a personal f5go server so I can share short mnemonic links that might be lists lke this. [1] https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5go https://github.com/f5devcentral/f5go

mlindner 4y ago
Hello fellow former F5er! I was there from late 2016 through early 2021. I left as I wasn't a fan of how things were heading and I also found the general software hygine to be quite bad and I kept wanting to use more local static analysis as a normal part of development, which was difficult given the convoluted build process for the software. I worked on TMM.