Category: Side Project - Page 4
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Weather Extension Updated
September 2026 update: Weather Extension now has an iOS app. WeatherExt for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch includes hourly forecasts, radar, animated skies, and widgets. Download on the App Store. Current Screenshots...
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Are URL Shorteners Useful Today?
Short URLs are everywhere, and I do not see them going away anytime soon. Services like T.LY , TinyURL, and Bitly have billions of short links spread out all across the web. If these services shut down, billions of...
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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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The History of Weather Extension
Weather started in 2015 as a quick way to see the forecast from a browser toolbar. I’ve kept screenshots as the extension has changed. Here is the latest chapter, followed by the earlier designs. The 2026 Refresh...
