
370: ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason Kottke
The Talk Show With John Gruber
The Biggest Link Shortener in PHP
The only thing he's done that's not PHP or Pearl is way back when custom link shorteners were a thing. He didn't want to use Bitly because of course he wanted to do it himself and wrote his own link shortener. "I've completely forgotten everything about Ruby. I've completely forgotten how you actually make Sinatra work"
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