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My Quick Hack: Readable YouTube URLs (wolchok.org)
8 points by swolchok on Oct 21, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments



I get the following: "OperationalError at /paul-graham". Which has to be a bug; pg doesn't have operational errors.


There is a Chuck Norris joke in there somewhere.


You caught me while I was monkeying with caching.


I think what would be infinitely more useful is some kind of jQuery plugin that would create a tooltip with the clip title in it for every youtube link. I put http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJYxCSXjhLI on a webpage and the tooltip displays "Rejected Cartoons by: Don Hertzfeldt" You could make it into a firefox extension or jetpack extension.


That doesn't work in other applications, like desktop instant messengers.


Cool, but this is like 4 lines of pseudo-code. Do you really need to post it on Hacker News?


will the video change if the search results change?


IMO it should, but right now I use a SQLite database as a permanent cache, so the video will never change. As soon as I get the urge to slack off some more, I'll just plug in Django's memcached support and set the expiration to a day or two.


I'm kind of shocked that you are using SQLite to power this site. I suppose it'd be easy to move to something better, but still...


Are you shocked that it works or shocked that I would be so stupid as to use SQLite? I expect extremely low load and that I'll have plenty of time to move to memcached and no database...

EDIT: it's on memcached now.




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