Well, the one issue with #Shlink is if you don't set Docker to restart the container, you lose everything.

I hope that's the only problem.

I have fixed that issue, but also exported the short URLs so I can have them for later in case there is a bigger failure down the line.

So, another thing pissed me off and motivated me to move.

#Rebrandly has decided to gate my access to my own URL shortening which I was only made aware of when trying to update https://majors.house/ttt to https://techtalkthursdays.net/.

Finally moved over to #Shlink for more #SelfHosted goodness!

Is there any #public, #free, #selfhosted, #shorturl instance I could use to generate a few short links? I was thinking about #shlink, #yourls and similar ones; don't want to take the common providers' route, like tinyurl, and cannot selfhost one myself, currently.

#askfedi #fedihelp

My unofficial internal instance of stickybean, a pastebin software, has been suspended twice in two weeks.

The first time, the support has recovered the service pretty quickly.

The second time, they wanted me to call the billing service. But I'm off for two weeks. I guess the service will be removed permanently because it usually happens after one week.

I'm doing this service only in my free time. I have warned everybody that may happen. And it's happening.

The team that should host this service has changed over the years, with external people, with high turnover. I have a replacement service in my head. I've already written tutorials so they could easily deploy it themselves. But I've done it in the past and nothing happened. Maybe I'm not a great technical leader? I don't think so. It's just not worth it.

The best bet is to deploy myself in our own namespace and tell them to update the CNAME.

I plan to use PrivateBin this time. Eventually with an URL shortener like Shlink. There are third party clients working with a default setup but every service is behind a proxy adding an authentication layer so I may fork or get inspired by one of the clients and add this feature.

Sounds fun right? Yes. Now I need to find time to do it, because as always, the business value of such change is so small, the priority is low, very low. Unless developers voice up because they were using the service.

Anyway, I'm having time off and my kids need me. Bye 🌴😎

#privatebin #shlink #collaboration #hosting #leadership

I've found a funny user-agent.

#Shlink

I'm f'ing around with #vibeCoding a #shlink node for #n8n. It's not ready to run yet. Just taking a break because I've been at it for a few hours and I'm out of credits on #Claude Pro. But it's maybe 80% of the way there. I'll pick it back up this afternoon.

https://github.com/magnus919/n8n-nodes-shlink-ai

Uy, me hace falta un acortador de enlaces para una cosa muy puntual... ¿Para que usar uno de por ahí pudiendo autoalojarme uno propio?

*Tres horas después de pelearme con la instalación de docker de #Shlink*

Ah ya, por eso.