About the funny URLs you might have seen in my linkblog flow on Facebook, Twitter or in the feed.
I've had a domain for a while looking for something to do with it.
The domain: pocalyp.se.
It's really sweet because it's designed to have prefixes like trump, tech or dave. It's place where I get to have some fun. Technically it's a URL shortener, but oddly the URLs often are longer. ;-)
I know it makes the links more fragile, I'm backing them up in static files so if I stop using this software, I can revert to a static server. It's not a bad backup, I've used it before.
The great thing about it is that it's a way of categorizing and grouping links. I usually get tired of classifying posts, so something I'll actually use is a big deal. So far I'm using this one.
An example: http://beatles.pocalyp.se/0 points to a great John Lennon song.
The code is available on GitHub, MIT License.
PS: There are easter eggs around here. ;-)
PPS: They're kind of like emoji for URLs.
What a fun idea. What about adding a /random to each domain that will re-direct you to any of the shortened links?
Interesting. It would be quite easy to do.