I’ve been working on this for a while, but let’s make it official: I started a little Tumblr-like microblog about software craft and quality!
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In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
@mwichary Much agreement!
There is plenty of prior art, some examples that I particularly remember:
- 2010: https://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/
- 2017: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/urls-are-ui
- 2018: https://alexpounds.com/blog/2018/12/29/four-cool-urls -
@mwichary Much agreement!
There is plenty of prior art, some examples that I particularly remember:
- 2010: https://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/
- 2017: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/urls-are-ui
- 2018: https://alexpounds.com/blog/2018/12/29/four-cool-urls@polarbirke Thanks for sharing!
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In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
@mwichary I love the Flickr url pattern. You could not find a collections link with knowing the pattern.
I am fine with the unique id as shorter url. Also knowing where it is in a downloaded photo allows the secret url trick to find the original page https://cogdogblog.com/2015/10/flickr-trickr/
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@mwichary I love the Flickr url pattern. You could not find a collections link with knowing the pattern.
I am fine with the unique id as shorter url. Also knowing where it is in a downloaded photo allows the secret url trick to find the original page https://cogdogblog.com/2015/10/flickr-trickr/
@cogdog Whoa! This would’ve saved me so much trouble throughout the years.
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In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
@mwichary fwiw I wrote some of my favs a while back
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@mwichary fwiw I wrote some of my favs a while back
@jimniels Thanks! Added here, maybe it helps someone! https://unsung.aresluna.org/mailbag-urls-as-ui/
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@cogdog Whoa! This would’ve saved me so much trouble throughout the years.
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@splorp @mwichary @cogdog Slightly offtopic, but I still use `/photo.gne?id=` URL to find where I downloaded certain photos years ago: https://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?rb=1&id=3399133066
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@splorp @mwichary @cogdog Slightly offtopic, but I still use `/photo.gne?id=` URL to find where I downloaded certain photos years ago: https://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?rb=1&id=3399133066
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@mwichary Regarding the note about adding a human friendly slug to the end of a URL, do you have a thought or preference to putting that part before the unique id?
flickr.com/mwichary/sets/alishan-forest-railway-72177720330077904
On an app I run I went with that style so the all the human readable bits could be typed and autocompleted. It does seem to be a little harder to read since it’s in the middle of the text though.
For example: https://app.mythic.nz/book/public-storybooks/sharable-public-storybooks/v4dUmg8Jjk6LmQYQlqy6Pw
`public-storybooks` is the collection slug, and `sharable-public-storybooks` is the page title slug.
Off the top of my head...
ID first means the URL can survive truncation of the slug part. Particularly good if you can keep the prefix short.
Slug first means URLs sort in alphabetical order by their slug. Maybe more suitable for small numbers of items, like a blog?
ID first is also marginally easier to construct a URL by hand - you generally don't need to add a fake slug, just end the URL at the ID and it still meets the pattern
Random example of slug-first that happened to be in my history:
- canonical URL: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/stargate-revived-prime-video-new-series-1236431118/
- doesn't work with only ID: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/1236431118/
- works if you know the format and add a fake slug: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/yeehaw-1236431118/ -
Off the top of my head...
ID first means the URL can survive truncation of the slug part. Particularly good if you can keep the prefix short.
Slug first means URLs sort in alphabetical order by their slug. Maybe more suitable for small numbers of items, like a blog?
ID first is also marginally easier to construct a URL by hand - you generally don't need to add a fake slug, just end the URL at the ID and it still meets the pattern
Random example of slug-first that happened to be in my history:
- canonical URL: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/stargate-revived-prime-video-new-series-1236431118/
- doesn't work with only ID: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/1236431118/
- works if you know the format and add a fake slug: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/yeehaw-1236431118/ -
@mwichary @mez
I actually found the example by typing "-123" into Firefox's address bar and looking what it came up with
However, Firefox's completion searches history by both URL and title, in any order. If I type "new stargate series", I get both that article and https://reactormag.com/stargate-amazon-mgm-studios/
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@mwichary I love the Flickr url pattern. You could not find a collections link with knowing the pattern.
I am fine with the unique id as shorter url. Also knowing where it is in a downloaded photo allows the secret url trick to find the original page https://cogdogblog.com/2015/10/flickr-trickr/
@cogdog @mwichary the URL structure for images (id, secret, size) is described in the API docs. https://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html
(I built a few things on the Flickr API circa 2005-2010. I suspect I can still remember some of the flickr.photos.search arguments.) -
@cogdog @mwichary the URL structure for images (id, secret, size) is described in the API docs. https://www.flickr.com/services/api/misc.urls.html
(I built a few things on the Flickr API circa 2005-2010. I suspect I can still remember some of the flickr.photos.search arguments.)@paulmison @mwichary That api has held strong, With little more the docs and the Flickr PHP library I built two sites like 12 years ago that use the API and they still work
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In which I celebrate the craft of Flickr’s original, amazing URL scheme: https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/
I don’t know if this is spicy (I honestly don’t even know what “spicy” means anymore on the internet), but wrote what I learned about making a bug process work for more people than just engineers: https://unsung.aresluna.org/how-to-make-sure-a-designer-never-files-a-bug-again/
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I don’t know if this is spicy (I honestly don’t even know what “spicy” means anymore on the internet), but wrote what I learned about making a bug process work for more people than just engineers: https://unsung.aresluna.org/how-to-make-sure-a-designer-never-files-a-bug-again/
For my 150th (!) post, a look back at Apple’s breathing lights: https://unsung.aresluna.org/just-a-little-detail-that-wouldnt-sell-anything/
