{"id":1534,"date":"2007-08-23T10:13:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T14:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/url-shortening-hashes-in-practice\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T14:13:33","slug":"url-shortening-hashes-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/url-shortening-hashes-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"URL Shortening: Hashes in Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/000935.html\">Jeff Atwood<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/000935.html\">\r\n<p>\r\nMy guess is the aggressive URL shortening services are doing a simple iteration across every permutation of the available characters they have as the URLs come in. Each new URL gets a unique three character combination until no more are left.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Atwood: My guess is the aggressive URL shortening services are doing a simple iteration across every permutation of the available characters they have as the URLs come in. Each new URL gets a unique three character combination until no more are left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}