18 points | by ColinWright 17 hours ago ago
5 comments
Quoting:
"Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens ..."
https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/14046
url shorteners bad: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners
https://xkcd.com/1172/
yeah, except the url shortener is being used for it’s usual functionality here, and they’re killing it. They’re not just “changing a workflow” they’re killing every poor soul who relies on it.
Quoting:
"Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens ..."
https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/14046
url shorteners bad: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners
https://xkcd.com/1172/
yeah, except the url shortener is being used for it’s usual functionality here, and they’re killing it. They’re not just “changing a workflow” they’re killing every poor soul who relies on it.