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		hardwaregeek on Jan 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to store your app's entire state in the url I love doing this for playgrounds! It's so nice to be able to share a link with the code embedded. Especially if you're giving someone a bug report and they need a minimal reproduction.

nerdponx on Jan 9, 2023 [–]

I appreciate this feature a lot on sites like https://tio.run and https://mermaid.live/. However the URLs also get very long and I often want to run them through a shortener for e.g. posting to IRC. But there are worse problems to have!

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