@ Chris Wellons:

Yeah, Git hosting is great but limited. Then again, the entire point of static sites is to offload everything to the client side, so using Apache redirects to do some server-side magic kinda flies in the face of that. Git also does not like third party Jekyll plugins, which kinda sucks. :(

@ Max:

Well, not that terribly pissed. The post was mostly a shtick for the effect. ;) I did used to sigh a lot more when watching people use their computers back then. I guess I’m more patient now. I still try to teach people power user tricks whenever I can, hoping that repetition will make things stick eventually. :P

Now I’m curious, how pissed off were you really about this not-using-the-address-bar thing? Because that blog post kind of reminds me of the Angry Video Game Nerd routine (as in, it’s funny because it’s so silly to get upset about that).

Your super long URLs have been a very minor annoyance for me in the past. :-) Specifically when I link to you from one of my articles. I write everything in Markdown and keep it under 70 columns (Emacs’ default wrap). Your URLs often go beyond 70 characters, and since URLs can’t break, they extend out into the void to the right of my paragraphs! Check out the bottom of this particular article source, for example,

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skeeto/skeeto.github.com/master/_pos ts/2012-12-29-An-Emacs-Pastebin.markdown

However, you’re still certainly not in the wrong. My own URLs only have the date, so when I’m managing a few of them at once, such as when backlinking to my own stuff, I easily get them mixed up. I think I’d prefer the descriptive URL by default, but it’s too late for me to fix that now (though I could cheat with a descriptive fragment). I flirted with a local shortening scheme like yours for awhile, also using an Apache rewrite, but that broke when I switched to static GitHub hosting (no more HTTP redirects). According to my logs, no one was using it anyway, so I didn’t worry about breaking it.