https://vanityurls.link/en/tags/history/Recent content in History on vanityURLsHugoen-CASun, 07 Jun 2026 18:08:29 -0400https://vanityurls.link/en/blog/evolution-to-worker-runtime/Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vanityurls.link/en/blog/evolution-to-worker-runtime/<p>vanityURLs started with a deliberately small idea: a short domain, a text file, and redirects that could be reviewed in Git.</p> <p>That first version mattered because it proved the core principle. A link shortener does not need to be a platform you rent from somebody else. It can be infrastructure you own.</p> <h2 id="the-early-shape">The early shape</h2> <p>The earliest implementation leaned on Cloudflare Pages and static redirect behavior. That was enough for simple aliases, but it also exposed the first limits:</p>