Category: Side Project - Page 5
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Handle Long URL Redirects NGINX
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a URL Shortener Service . When testing the ability to shorten really long urls (over 3500+ characters) I ran into an issue I had never seen before. When trying to...
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Introducing T.LY
Over the past several months, I have been working on a Link Shortener Extension . It originally launched for Chrome , Firefox , Edge , and Opera . The extension has grown to over 400,000 users, and now also supports...
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Has Everything Already Been Invented?
There is a famous quote “Everything that can be invented has been invented” believed to be by Charles H. Duell a commissioner of US patent office from 1889. Even though this quote is not accurate, it shows that many...
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Blank New Tab Extension
Have you ever been blinded by the white background in chrome? If so, you will like blank tab extension , which replaces your new tab with a blank dark page. BlankTab will not slow down your browser and requires...
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Seth’s First, ten
Seth’s post titled First, ten from back in 2009 is still relevant today. If you are building a product, finding your first ten users can be challenging but they are the first step to 100 then a 1,000 and so on. Plan...
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Weather Extension Status Page
When managing multiple websites, apps, and extensions it is important to know when a site is down before your users have to alert you. Currently, I use UptimeRobot to monitor all my websites etc. It’s a great service...
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How to Unshorten Short Urls
Several months ago I created a site called LinkUnshorten with the goal to guard people against short links from sites like goo.gl, bit.ly, tinyurl etc. Url shorteners are great but they do have the risk of...
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Side Project Tech Stack
I want to start this post by saying this is my preference on the frameworks and technologies that I use for most of my apps. Depending on your experience and goals you should experiment to see what works for you. For...
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Weather.io
I’ve been working on a new site called Weather.io. Besides being on an awesome io domain name thanks to park.io , it’s a simple site that displays a weather-related background image and the current weather...
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Headless Chrome on Heroku
I’ve been experimenting with headless chrome for a Link Unshortener tool I’ve built to take screenshots of websites. I’ve been using BrowserShot which is great. It’s a php wrapper around Puppeteer which makes it...
