links.lmorchard.com - #urls

Your URL Is Your State

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:49:44 +0000

This got me thinking: how often do we, as frontend engineers, overlook the URL as a state management tool? We reach for all sorts of abstractions to manage state such as global stores, contexts, and caches while ignoring one of the web’s most elegant and oldest features: the humble URL.

Tags: #js #urls #webdev

Bit.ly Plans to Strengthen the Skeleton of the Social Web With Verisign Partnership

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 21:51:24 +0000

Bit.ly redirects as many as 8 billion of those links in a given month. To help further strengthen the reliability of its shortened URLs, Bit.ly is going right to the root of the Web's infrastructure. I wouldn't exactly say this is *strengthening* the skeleton.

Tags: #bitly #social #urls #verisign

War on Urchin! (Pinboard Blog)

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 04:01:17 +0000

Bravo!

Tags: #pinboard #urchin #urls

Sam Ruby: Canonical Reverse Or Wisdom Defying Shorturl?

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:38:15 +0000

Tags: #revcanonical #urls #urlshortening #webdev

rev=canonical: url shortening that doesn't hurt the internet

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:11:52 +0000

"RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. If not, we just return the original URL. And you should bug the link owner about providing a better alternative."

Tags: #revcanonical #urls #urlshorteners #web #webdev

joshua's blog: on url shorteners

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:36:53 +0000

"So there are clear benefits for both the service (low cost of entry, potentially easy profit) and the linker (the quick rush of popularity). But URL shorteners are bad for the rest of us.I feel that shorteners are bad for the ecosystem as a whole. But what can be done to improve the situation?"

Tags: #delicious #links #twitter #urls #web #webdev

Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | REST Tips: Prefer following links over URI construction

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:35:16 +0000

"Note that the client doesn't get to 'know' how to construct employee URIs from employee-ids, instead it just follows links from the employee list to each employee resource."

Tags: #rest #uris #urls #urltemplates #webdev #webservices

0xDECAFBAD - painfully metalicious

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:06:46 +0000

"I’m also happy that del.icio.us uses MD5 hashes to normalize this situation." How meta is this now?

Tags: #del.icio.us #explody #sometaithurts #urls #web #webdev