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		josmek on March 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The World's Longest URL “Shortener” Hey All, OP here, contrary to popular belief I did not make this :) I saw it on GitHub when I noticed someone who starred the Prefect repo had the username `programming`, clicked their profile and saw this: https://github.com/programming/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... and just thought it was hilarious. Knew you all would get a kick out of it!

_ylmx on March 28, 2019 | [–]

The way GitHub displays it [1] is equally great too.

[1] - https://i.imgur.com/mPqrvaU.png

lzy on March 29, 2019 | [–]

And here I was wondering why my repo was suddenly getting starred. Glad you enjoyed my work and thanks for sharing it!

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