The difference in speed between my day job and the after hours hacking I do is sometimes mind-boggling. My day job is a typical “day job”. Anything of note takes time to happen. I’m cool with that.

I’m also cool with what happens at home. Where I can get an idea, hit Google for some quick research and get on with the business of making it happen.

Case in point, I registered dfst.us yesterday- before I even googled “php based URL shortener”- and about 30 hours later (only about 2 of which was actual coding- tweaking the easy-to-use phurl script) I’m sitting here with my own personal URL shortening service.
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