Tag: web

Comentario version 2.3.1 is released.

Comentario is a lightweight, powerful, and free comment server for web pages written in Go and Angular.

What’s new

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I’ve been using Commento, the web comment engine, for quite a while on this website, as well as some other sites. I even wrote a post on running Commento with Docker Compose. Commento used to be a free and lightweight alternative to Disqus, Facebook Comments, and such.

But Commento is now dead, which is why I decided to relaunch it — under the new name of Comentario (yes, with one m)!

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The website afk.best, which I launched two years ago, has got a facelift.

It’s an online dictionary helping you decipher all those tricky Dutch abbreviations and acronyms you stumble upon so often that it can drive you mad.

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Welcome to our regular update about the world’s best link shortener once.to!

This October has brought us a new, beautiful tool for investigating URLs called URL Explorer, link-shortening bookmarks (bookmarklets), and lots of minor improvements.

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We’re back with a number of updates about the world’s fastest link shortener once.to!

This edition’s highlights: phishing, abuse, slugs and redirects!

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Shortly after once.to went out of beta the service got flooded with phishing and otherwise malevolent links. There were dozens of them created during a short timespan, all leading to pages mimicking login pages of banks, Facebook, Google and so on.

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Today the world’s best link shortener once.to has officially lost its beta status!

Here’s a short summary of what we’ve been up to in the past thirty days or so.

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Happy first summer day to everyone!

It’s been exactly two months since our world’s best URL shortener once.to has entered public beta.

Dear, we’ve been busy! These two months resulted in a whole bunch of cool features.

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Even though it’s April 1^st, I have some serious story for you today! It’s about what I’ve been up to for the last six months, which has been a pretty busy, interesting, and eye-opening time for me.

Long story short: we at Yktoo Solutions are busy building the best link shortener in the world, which we called once.to.

Do read on for intriguing details explaining what that is and why it is so fascinating.

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It recently occurred to me that it would be convenient to have a dedicated section that lists the most common Dutch terms. Each term could then provide a brief explanation and references to relevant blog posts, and be linked to.

Thus there is the Glossary section now.

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My abbreviation dictionary afk.best has received an option for searching abbreviations only (and not all available fields).

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