Instead of:
yoursite.com/blog/2022/05/08/short-urls-why-and-how.html
… consider just:
yoursite.com/short

Introduced by Artyom.

I visit Derek Sivers' website from time to time. Every time I do, I discover he had

• written some half a hundred new blog posts,

• moved to another place,

• and started a new diet/philosophy/routine/book.

He's too productive for a human, but that's a topic for a different time.

Artyom makes a good point that plaintext is a lie. Of course it is! Nothing worse than being presented with a .txt file. Screw that! Folks, user proper text formats.

This is a personal story I hope will give web designers and user interface experts some food for thought: my experience with reading digital screens with eyesight degraded by cataract. There may be more users with suboptimal vision than usually thought.

I always preferred the light theme and never figured what's the fuss with the dark theme. Until cataract came.