15:I[981,["658","static/chunks/658-a698693f56d0116a.js","183","static/chunks/183-6beeeb801c274aaa.js","474","static/chunks/app/%5Btype%5D/layout-631c4730b83c8223.js"],"Posts"] 16:T45d,I constantly share raw GitHub install scripts, but I didn’t want another backend URL shortener. Shorty is a single HTML page that normalizes raw.githubusercontent.com or github.com/blob URLs, tokenizes the path with jsTiktoken, and remaps tokens through the Unix words list plus a couple of glyph sets to keep the shortcode tiny. No storage, no API keys—just a deterministic mapping you can host from GitHub Pages.

    What’s different:
    - Canonicalizes github.com/blob links into their raw equivalent automatically.
    - Uses TikToken + Unix dictionary matches to compress owners/repos/paths, with Unicode or box-drawing glyph sets (hash vs. query) for legibility trade-offs.
    - Everything is client-side: paste a URL to get both the shortcode and ready-to-share link; paste a shortcode (hash or query) and it auto-decodes with a 3‑2‑1 redirect
  animation.
    - Ships with a tiny `embed-shorty.js` so you can drop the decoder onto any page.

    Try it at the link above or grab the code: https://github.com/metacritical/shorty

17:T6a3,Hi guys,

Wanted to share a project I have been working on for a while https://github.com/holesail/holesail

It is a lightweight reverse proxy similar to Ngrok but works over peer-to-peer tunnels and requires absolutely no configuration.

No port forwarding, no VPNs, no servers in the middle just a direct, end-to-end encrypted connection between two peers using a simple connection key.

It supports both UDP and TCP and runs on Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and iOS and has a Node API that can be used to integrate it into any Android, iOS or CLI app.

The goal is to make Holesail the go-to solution for developers, and self

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