As you might know, YOURLS development is now hosted on Github. It's now easy to download the current development snapshot, since Github provides an archive/master.zip. But not so long ago, YOURLS dev was hosted on Google Code, where there is no such convenient way to download the current SVN trunk as a .zip archive. To […][...] → Read more

As soon as YOURLS 1.6 ships, I'll move the project development from Google to Github (why? long story short: read this). So, I wrote down a little todo list to make sure the transition is as smooth as possible for everyone, which is: On Github Move in issues and tickets from Google. I wrote a […][...] → Read more

I've just set up blog.yourls.org where hopefully I will, guess what, post about YOURLS development. I think the major stuff will be cross posted here too, at least for now, and I'll blog there about all the misc and fun stuff I never write about (like plugins! owwww plugins!) On a WordPress related side note, […][...] → Read more

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 :)[...] → 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