The bad news: in 8 days as of writing, Twitter will be shutting off basic authentication for third party applications. No more entering your login/password, but a more secure OAuth system that redirects you to Twitter’s site and confirm you’re allowing access to your account. All this, honestly, kind of sucks. The good news: I’ve [...] → Read more

Straight from the Shrink-Your-URLS-With-A-Custom-Branded-Self-Hosted-Solution Department: if you’re following my tweets, you already know that I released YOURLS 1.4.1 yesterday. What’s in there? Good stuff for sure, but even better stuff are on their way :) Share This Related posts YOURLS Was Cool? YOURLS 1.4 Is Awesome! (13) YOURLS Plugin for WordPress: Now With OAuth (2) [...] → Read more

I’ve finally released the much awaited and long overdue YOURLS version 1.4. It’s still not perfect but there are no more blocking issue that I know of. This version brings a much better installer, an upgrader from version 1.3 of course, lots of code improvements, and, yum yum, stats (example). Honestly, bit.ly and such, you’re [...] → Read more

So, if I didn’t forget to upload a zip archive or to press a “Commit” button, it should be all here for you: the GPL’d URL shortener I wrote about earlier that Lester Chan and I have been using for a while now. Our URL shortener service is called YOURLS, as in Your Own URL [...] → Read more