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I made a Solana game where you can vote for buttons to press in a Pokemon game i.e. Twitch plays Pokemon on Solana It's kinda weird to build this on the Solana blockchain especiall…

Nope it really depends on the plan/pricing you get. The cheapest "droplet" is lousier than a chromebook but there is a wide range of VPSes of varying specs you could choose from! h…

Nice thats what i do too! I use a combination of code-server running on a gcloud instance and chrome remote desktop to do my work on a lenovo duet chromebook!

Cuz they are supposed to be called by people building various apps, and it does not make sense to limit the source of the network requests

Thank you for the reply! I definitely learnt a lot from your comprehensive replies. Personally, I am just getting started in web development and I have traditionally written everyt…

Wow.. I don't even know where to start.. Thanks for the heads up that's cool beans!

Base64 would probably be longer than the original URL. I can't really see how short pieces of text (like URLs) could be compressed to become smaller. That being said it's definitel…

Oh that is cool! It does remind me of https://telegra.ph/ by Telegram! (Even though they weren't really advertising it as a universal shortener). Just a quick question, how did you…

I would suppose doing a push every time a new URL is added would be quite expensive for GitHub too. Plus, GitHUb pages is not updated immediately upon push and it takes some time f…

Well I would believe that even a `json` file or any other form of storage written to disk is considered a database, But your suggestion definitely brings it further away from an ac…

I do have YOURLS on my personal domain/server. It does work well for me and has no spam as link creation can be made private!

Indeed and especially with many shorteners not being maintained and going down. That being said, this one is not meant to be an actual URL shortener, but rather, a cool hack and it…

Hmm having a GitHub action redeploy the site is not instantaneous and it does take up to 1 minute for the site (and consequently the new short link) to be updated. Nevertheless, th…

I am calling GitHub's official API. APIs are not supposed to have any CORS restrictions.

If the links were to be stored in files, I probably would run a GitHub action on every push to statically generate the pages for new links!

Probably GitHub's API went down for an instance since I didn't make any new pushes then!

Thank you for the advice! I love that domain though, have always been trying to find a 4 character URL shortener since GoDaddy killed x.co. Will definitely use your service more th…

I figured that since the dependencies were only used in the build step it's not really considered. That being said, I didn't know ES2015 had `.then()` and was kinda trying out babe…

My fault. Didn't know that ES2015 actually supported `.then()`. Anyway, this was also an exercise for me to learn about babel (I use CRA all the time so have no idea what is going …

Thank you for the kind comments! That's was the aim of the project, to make it fun and easy to create new short links!

This is definitely just a fun hack and not meant for production! For production ready short links with low overheads I would personally recommend using Firebase URLs or cloud fires…

What I meant was that GitHub's API does not check for the Host header, and the API allows connections from any source. Thus, CORS isn't an issue at all.

Yes I agree with all of the above. And with my fixation on URL shorteners, I did have a dream of creating a full fledged URL shortening service like yours. I wasn't technically ski…

That's a good one fixing now hehe

Some guy shared his project in this post that does exactly that! Yes while that is possible and can get to a high level of automation via GitHub actions, the point of my URL shorte…