crayonixel

Re:You Are Not Google (2017) on Friday April 05, 2019 @05:38AM (#19581022)

Thanks for pointing that out! Direct link for anyone else looking for it: https://stackoverflow.com/users/preferences

Re:The World's Longest URL “Shortener” on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:22AM (#19511892)

The source code (JavaScript) is quite readable.

This seems to be the backing store:

With the ability to get a specific key from this style of URL:

And post to it to set a value.

There's no security though - anyone can overwrite any URL - e.g. in the console on that page:

    pushJSON(endpoint + '/AAAAaaAaAaaAAaaAAAAAaAAAAaAAaAAaaaAAAAaA', 'http://www.example.com/');