Recent small projects

In the past few months, whenever I’ve run into a new technology or platform I want to try, I try to make something using this. This started mainly with Cloudflare technologies like Workers and DNS stuff but now has turned into small projects that offer a bit of practicality and are using other platforms as well like Fly.io.

Link shortener

Link shortener (l.mhmd.us)

This link shortener I have wanted to build for awhile, whenever I learn some technology I leave it half done after I feel like I’ve understood and made my decision about the tech (am I going to use it or no?). But with cloudflare workers, it was a no brainer to keep it running. One tidbit about this project: when I was done putting together the Cloudflare Workers part, I felt uninspired to do the webpage for it so all of the code for the webpage was generated using Copilot.

QR creator

qr.mhmd.us →

This project is dead simple in what it does but again, it was used to test out a new platform, in this case Fly.io. I have some projects on DigitalOcean (like this blog) but I wanted to give Fly.io a try since they give you about $5 worth of credits to use for your projects for free every month. The way this one works is simple, you give it some text and it will produce a QR code image for it. ✨ A good way to use this is within a excel or Google Sheet that passes something from a column and expects an image output from the URL. Example sheet here →

Redirector

r.mhmd.us →

This one is a bit older but it’s one of those things that once it’s working, it’s just going to keep running until I decide to break it. With this one, it’s best to use for redirecting within apps that don’t allow non-http(s) URLs, like Google Docs and Notion.

I’m going to collect these and others onto one single page for easier searching for the future.