gobin - A minimalistic paste bin written in go

[golden thorn]

I've gotten annoyed at most other paste bins having tons of bloat and unnecessary features, so i made this.

https://github.com/sa-g-e/gobin

Features

• create pastes that expire
• view pastes if you have its link
• (sort of) automatic deletion of expired of pastes
• lightweight - 38kb
• no database

(my first project in go, so any feedback would be awesome)

[rustic storm]

oh the gif in the readme slaps

https://github.com/sa-g-e/gobin/blob/main/handlers/view.go#L20 I see you use file-system to load html templates, you could instead use $[embed] to put them directly in the binary

[warm osprey]

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Package embed provides access to files embedded in the running Go program.

Go source files that import "embed" can use the //go:embed directive to initialize a variable of type string, []byte, or FS with the contents of files read from the package directory or subdirectories at compile time.

For example, here are three ways to embed a file named hello.txt and then print its contents at run time.

Embedding one file into a string:

More documentation omitted...

[upbeat shard]

Acknowledgements
all the horrible paste bins out there
🤣 nice

Nicely done btw

[mint valley]

https://github.com/sa-g-e/gobin/blob/main/handlers/view.go#L20 it’s quite inneficient to keep redoing on each view

holding a lock while writing the file would be bad too, nanos isn’t a uuid, using a sequence number would be better

your expiration is indeed “sorta”

[golden thorn]

Haha yeah, first project so still learning

Don't really know that much rn

[mint valley]

no problem, doing is a good way to learn

using the hash of the content as the key would work best I guess

some of your files aren’t formatted. use an IDE with auto fmt