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What I learned from building an emoji URL shortener in Rust

So, I made an emoji URL shortener with Rust and shared it in some places including the Rust community. And oh man this is the first thing I made that got this many visitors which is pretty nice knowing that people were curious enough to try it despite them probably feeling disgusted from me bringing such a thing to existence. Repo: https://github.com/sekunho/emojied Website: https://emojied.net Some glowing ✨ reviews: “Thanks, I hate it....

April 11, 2022 · 17 min · sekun