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Vanity: A “no, this blog isn’t just about shorturls” post on shorturls

Posted on January 30, 2010 by cdn

Last Saturday, I woke up with a seemingly brilliant idea, a dot-st domain name for use by my online postage half-site Print My Postage, mypo.st was subsequently registered. However, this isn’t about that; I was on skype telling Brian (King) … Continue reading →

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la petite url 1.5.1

Posted on September 25, 2009 by cdn

Seems changes like mine have ended up in la petite url, github didn’t have them last time I looked, it was still at 1.5…

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Am I a git?

Posted on August 28, 2009 by cdn

http://github.com/cdn/la-petite-url/tree/281f3876a1008e06da9ffe6e25986c7b718eea6d forked la-petite-url slightly… Note to self: $ git commit -a tends to update the remote files better than just $ git commit

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Upgraded la petite url

Posted on August 28, 2009 by cdn

1.06 up to 1.5 doesn’t go : ) It now has the features I was hacking in: alternative domain name, the other auto–discovery <link /> Just need to fix the Twitter Tools plugin add–on to use appropriate function call(s)

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Twitter, can you hear me?

Posted on August 25, 2009 by cdn

Upgrade of Twitter Blog plug-in means rewriting all the hacks – silly. Will have to use Twitter Tools instead; at least then I can add a filter* to pull in the “la petite url”–generated stub when posts get tweeted. * … Continue reading →

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Short Links and IDNs : Part Deux

Posted on August 25, 2009 by cdn

This will be part two of Short Links, IDNs and (WordPress). lessn and shorty – standalone host-your-own short-url services http://get-shorty.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=21 http://ƨ.ws/shorty http://www.subtraction.com/2006/01/17/get-shorty http://www.subtraction.com/2006/08/24/announcing-s lessn is very simple, you get one username / password and next to no interface – does … Continue reading →

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Short Links, IDNs (and WordPress)

Posted on August 23, 2009 by cdn

Having been caught up in the wheels of the bandwagon, I’ve been playing with short link generators that you self–host. Disconnected thoughts: been playing with short url technologies, WordPress and the inevitable short domain names, IDNs that look cool / … Continue reading →

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