@@ -117,22 +117,44 @@ character URL.
That's where URL shorteners come in!
Most shortener services I've found that are both open source and self-hosted use
-something like 6-character-long paths for the link as they're meant for use by
+something like 6-character-long paths for the links as they're meant for use by
multiple people; 14.8m possible URLs (your cap with 4 character paths) aren't
enough for public services.
-Six characters is *fine* but why write six characters when you could write four :D
+Now six characters is *fine* but why write six characters when you could write
+four :D
-Also, why deal with user management and a relational database when you're only
+And why deal with user management and a relational database when you're only
going to have one user and a bunch of keys with values :D
-I also had a case of the typical "programmer unsatisfied with the {language|tech
-stack|license|feature set|all of the above}, wants to make something better"
-problem. I'm not a big fan of Node, PHP is ok, Python is meh, big relational
-database is unnecessary, heavy frontend is unnecessary, complex backend is
-unnecessary, I don't care about link tracking, click counts, link referrers,
-geo-location of visitors, etc., etc., etc.
+I was also unsatisfied with the tech stack and feature sets of the alternatives;
+they were all either a pain to set up and update or they had click counters and
+link tracking and a bunch of other crap I have no use for.
-All this put together, I decided I would be best served by using this as an
-opportunity to learn more Go and write my own thing that does nothing more than
-what I want need :)
+So I decided to make my own that has exactly what I want and nothing more :D
+
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