Simon Willison’s Weblog

django-shorturls. Jacob took my self-admittedly shonky shorter URL code and turned it in to a proper reusable Django application.

# 9:31 am / django, djangoshorturls, jacob-kaplan-moss, python, revcanonical

I like rev=“canonical”. Les Orchard summarises the current debate over what colour to paint the rev=“canonical” bikeshed.

# 10:41 am / lesorchard, revcanonical, urls

favikon.com. Small, easy to use online favicon generator.

# 12:09 pm / favicon, favikon

How to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code. Looks legit—the author claims to have sparked this weekend’s #amazonfail moral outrage (where Amazon where accused of removing Gay and Lesbian books from their best seller rankings) by exploiting a CSRF hole in Amazon’s “report as inappropriate” feature to trigger automatic takedowns. EDIT: His claim is disputed elsewhere (see comments)

# 7:48 pm / amazon, amazonfail, csrf, prdisaster, security

tinyarchive.org. Blaine Cook’s archive of 301 and 302 redirects—needs to be automatically updated by a crawler for it to be really useful though.

# 9:57 pm / archive, tinyarchive, tinyurls, urls