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This is really fascinating. Mostly because I never heard of the "/uses" convention. Unfortunately it's impossible to google to learn about it. Does anyone know
by pcthrowaway 3y ago
This is really fascinating.
Mostly because I never heard of the "/uses" convention. Unfortunately it's impossible to google to learn about it. Does anyone know where "/uses" originated?
- gtirloni 3y agoSame here. I know people have posted about their setups but didn't know `/uses` was a thing.
- mindcrime 3y agoFound this: https://dev.to/nickytonline/do-you-have-a-uses-page-5b82 https://dev.to/nickytonline/do-you-have-a-uses-page-5b82 and https://dev.to/nikoheikkila/show-your-own-uses-page-160j https://dev.to/nikoheikkila/show-your-own-uses-page-160j and https://github.com/wesbos/awesome-uses https://github.com/wesbos/awesome-uses and https://heyfirst.co/blog/lets-share-your-setup-in-uses-page/ https://heyfirst.co/blog/lets-share-your-setup-in-uses-page/ Not a lot of history that I see at first blush, but I didn't look terribly hard. FWIW, Google "uses page" turns up a few other results as well.
- em-bee 3y agoi thought this was some kind of API where you could share your uses tags in a standardized way like other distributed social features so that other sites can aggregate them and show them like uses.tech does. but this is just a static site that will accumulate a lot of stale data once people lose interest to maintain their entries. it would not be so hard. a uses.txt on your website listing tag and description. and a curated list of urls to all these uses.txt files that are periodically scanned for updates.
- tiim 3y agoI'm pretty sure it originates with wes bos (wesbos.com) , the person that also created uses.tech
- ttepasse 3y agoYou may also be interested in the /now convention: https://sive.rs/now3 https://sive.rs/now3 https://nownownow.com https://nownownow.com
- jrvarela56 3y agothis is cool (person/now, person/uses); it's like a standard reporting API for people