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blowing my dang mind I talked to @ftrain.com about it for a moment earlier today flaminghydra.com/issue-669/

The fun of copyright: you can never run out of hypos.

This is fun Mermaid and some other stuff do this, too

That’s … actually pretty neat (once I’ve wrapped my mind around it, lol). Plus, you can use a service like Bitly to shorten it – like this: bit.ly/3VBTlSi – which makes it even easier to share around.

And the web page has to choose to read the URL parameters to do this.

Underused pattern. Chrome IIUC supports up to 2MB, and Firefox 64KB. Huge amounts for many applications. And given that most browser storage isn’t guaranteed (can be evicted), it’s effectively one of the durable forms of browser storage, if you bookmark the URL.

holy shit! this is brilliant. will add to my newsletter.

This seems very cool — though I don't have any clue about how this works. This must be how my parents felt when I tried to explain how modems work in the 1980s.

I didn’t realize urls could be that long. I assumed there was some 2048 or something character limit!