Show HN: Pxl.to – A serverless link shortener with no limits and no downtime I built a service based on Amazon CloudFront's global edge network of points of presence. This distributed architecture affords the user: - Protection against network and application layer attacks - Robust and reliable links that will never go down - Instant links with low latency no matter where your visitors are in the world - Unlimited tracked clicks (no cap on clicks/month) The service has support for teams and custom domains, and auto-generates an SSL cert for every custom domain added, for HTTPS-secure links. It's largely free and can be found at https://www.pxl.to I'd love any feedback... no matter how brutal :) May 17, 2022 at 07:04AM
Women Pioneers at Muni: Adeline Svendsen and Muni’s First Newsletter By Jeremy Menzies To close out Women’s History Month, here’s a look back at one woman whose work to bring Muni staff together in the late 1940s created a legacy that lives on to this day. Adeline “Addy” Svendsen was founding editor of Muni’s first internal newsletter, “ Trolley Topics .” Adeline Svendsen sits at her desk in the Geneva Carhouse office building in this 1949 shot. Trolley Topics was a new venture when it started in February 1946. As Svendsen wrote in the first issue it was created, “to bring a little fun, a little news, and a lot of good will to all our fellow employees in the Railway.” Just two years prior in 1944, Muni merged with the Market Street Railway Company, expanding the small municipal operation into the largest transit provider in the city with hundreds of employees, vehicles of every shape and size, and dozens of facilities scattered across town. The newsletter was meant to help unite ...
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