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Examples Of Great URL Design

- Jim Nielsen tl;dr: Jim discusses the importance of thoughtful URL design, showcasing how URLs can be more than just web addresses. He highlights examples like StackOverflow, where URLs balance computer and human needs by combining a unique identifier with an optional human-readable slug. Jim also mentions Slack's marketing campaign, which cleverly integrated storytelling into URLs. He points out how GitHub and NPM use URLs that map to their domain semantics, providing intuitive navigation and shortcuts for users. 

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Examples Of Great URL Design

- Jim Nielsen tl;dr: Jim discusses the importance of thoughtful URL design, showcasing how URLs can be more than just web addresses. He highlights examples like StackOverflow, where URLs balance computer and human needs by combining a unique identifier with an optional human-readable slug. Jim also mentions Slack's marketing campaign, which cleverly integrated storytelling into URLs. He points out how GitHub and NPM use URLs that map to their domain semantics, providing intuitive navigation and shortcuts for users. 

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What Is A URL

- Azeem Bande-Ali tl;dr: Azeem covers how different systems handle the same URLs differently, and the security risks caused by those inconsistencies.

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A Tale Of A Trailing Dot

- Daniel Stenberg tl;dr: "Trailing dots on host names in URLs is the gift that keeps on giving. Let me take you through a dwindling story of how the dot is handled differently in different places through the stack of an Internet client. The evil trailing dot."

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URL, URI, URN: What's The Difference?

- Andrea Chiarelli tl;dr: "While DALL-E 2 can perform a variety of tasks, including image manipulation and interpolation as mentioned above, we will focus on the task of image generation in this article."

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