Category: Side Project - Page 3
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Dynamic Social Media Share Images
To improve the experience when sharing an AtomicQuote URL on Twitter or Facebook, I needed to dynamically generate share images that include the quote and author with multiple background images. To do this, I could...
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Introducing AtomicQuote
I’ve always been a fan of quotes . Quotes can motivate, inspire, teach, and more. When things get tough, many people turn to a motivational quote for a bit of inspiration. We are most open to change when we feel...
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Chrome Hiding Extension Icons By Default
Back in June 2019, Google Chrome started hiding extension icons by default when users first install a new extension. This can be very frustrating as a developer that users may not know how to “Pin” the extension to...
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Bitcoin Tracker Extension
With Bitcoin growing in popularity and hitting an all-time high, I decided to create a simple tool to stay up to date with the latest price of bitcoin. Bitcoin Tracker is a new extension to quickly show you the...
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Link Unshortener
Link Unshortener now lives inside T.LY Link Expander . If you want to see where a short link goes before you click it, paste it in and it will follow the redirects and show the final destination. That is useful when...
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Subdomain or Subfolder for Blog?
When deciding if a blog for T.LY link shortener , should be on a separate domain, I reached out to IndieHackers to get their opinion. I originally was going to use my tdotly.com domain for the blog and marketing site...
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Ways to Preview Short Links
A short link is a URL with fewer characters that redirects to a longer destination URL. There are several reasons for wanting to shorten a link. They take less time to type, are easier to remember, easier to share,...
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Weather Extension v5
Over the past 5 years, Weather Extension has gone through many changes. The first version was pretty basic. It showed the hourly and daily forecast. Over time I’ve added the ability to add multiple locations, weather...
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T.LY Custom Domains
Recently I added the ability for users to add custom domains to the link shortener T.LY . This allows users to add their own domains to brand their short URLs. Custom domains are included in all subscription plans....
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Apple Buys DarkSky
All good things must come to an end and this appears to be the case for Dark Sky. On March 31, 2020, Dark Sky announced on their blog that they have a new home at Apple. iOS App There will be no changes to Dark Sky...
