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David Celis

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so next year, Google will break millions of goo.gl links all across the internet. they already shut off the ability to shorten new URLs and it would be extremely easy for them to leave the existing ones up. but Google doesn’t care about the web, so they won’t.

Shortened goo.gl URLs will all break in late 2025

Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

developers.googleblog.com

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our collective memory span amazes me sometimes. like do y’all really not remember when Mike Monteiro called out Sticker Mule’s CEO/Co-founder as a huge Trump supporter/donor in October 2016 and it lead to him deleting his twitter account? of course not

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why are people still debating the gender neutrality of “dude” in the year of our lord 2024? if someone doesn’t want you to call them “dude”, just don’t; if they don’t care, go for it. this shit isn’t complicated

i hit a big milestone today: 3 years at FireHydrant, my longest stint in tech! i’ve had the privilege of working at some very cool companies, but something always gives. bad managers, uncaring leadership, burnout… this industry can really suck. but here, for now, i’m still happy and motivated 😌

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ok so i bought a bag of muddy bites and i’ve only had them once before this, but i would swear the last bag had more chocolate in each tiny cone. like they were almost full, and in this bag, they’re only half full. am i paranoid

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