Actually it’s more like a couple of little cautionary tales in one. […]
READ MOREThis whole thing started out as a nice-to-have. I have a blog (you’re reading it). I have a URL shortener (jmbk.nl). They are separate apps on separate domains. When I publish a post here, I diligently create the short URL for it manually in order to publish that short URL on social sites (the URL shortener has some minimalist stats associated with each short URL; so minimal, it’s only a count of the number of times it was used). Yeah, I know, silly, huh: why can’t each post generate its own short URL? […]
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