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Whistle

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on May 25, 2010 at 7:39:41 pm
 

Whistle is an algorithmically reversible personal URL shortener.

 

There is an instance of Whistle running at http://ttk.me.

 

Whistle makes use of the following building blocks:

 

Whistle is used by:

 

Design notes:

 

  • single-letter content-type prefix
    • b - blog post, article (structured, with headings), essay
    • i - identifier - on another system using subdirectory as system id space
    • p - photo
    • t - text, (plain) text, tweet, thought, note, unstructured, untitled
    • ... more to be added as I implement them.
  • t - text shortening design: /tSSSn
    • SSS - NewBase60 epoch days
    • n - nth post for the day

Interview, background and some documentation:

 

 

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