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		unglaublich on Aug 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Examples of Great URL Design (2023) I like that GitHub supports file-like suffixes to get different views of the same content. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/{hash} https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/{hash}.patch https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/{hash}.diff

syspec on Aug 14, 2024 | [–]

I agree that is a cool feature. I would say it's from its Rails background where such a thing is encouraged (.json or .html (or no extension)) on a resource give you two different outputs

keepamovin on Aug 14, 2024 | [–]

I'm also a fan of the public keys extension:

https://github.com/${username}.keys

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