Permalinks that describe themselves
Paste in any URL, get back one short permanent link that says who saved it, when, and what it is. Your bookmarks become plain text you can grep, sort, and read — even if the server is gone.
Anatomy of a bkmark
https://bkmark.link/jack/251014-091203-k2m9qa3w1/db-outage-postmortem-and-fixes └───── anchor ─────┘└you┘└── when ───┘ └─ id ──┘ └──────── what it is ────────┘
- anchor
- Every link you mint shares this prefix — one grep finds every bookmark you've ever saved, in any note, doc, or chat log.
- you
- Your handle, yours forever. Anyone who sees the link knows whose library it came from.
- when
- The exact UTC second you saved it. A plain string sort puts your links in perfect chronological order — no database needed.
- id
- Nine random characters minted just for this bookmark — the key the server uses to look up the destination URL. It's the only part the router reads, so everything else can change and the link still resolves.
- what it is
- The title, baked into the URL. You know what's behind a link before you click — even years later, even with the server gone.
Fits anywhere
Never more than 100 characters — short enough for a commit message, a tweet, or a margin note.
Never breaks
Only the 9-character id is load-bearing. Truncate the slug, mangle the rest — it still resolves.
Mint from anywhere
Web, API, shell function, or browser extension — the link is on your clipboard in milliseconds.
Outlives the server
Even offline, the string itself still tells you who saved what, and when.
The link is half of it
Every bkmark also lands in your private library — search it, skim the AI summaries, and jump straight back to the original page in one click.
DB outage postmortem and fixes
Root cause and four fixes for October's write-lock pileup. · AI summary
bkmark.link/jack/251014-091203-k2m9qa3w1/…
Gemini chat: schema migration strategy
Long thread weighing expand-and-contract vs. versioned views. · AI summary
bkmark.link/jack/250602-141115-p7x2nb4r0/…
Cheap GPU benchmarks, 2024 edition
Page stopped resolving — Wayback Machine copy ready to swap in.
bkmark.link/jack/240131-083009-d4q8mz7e2/…
Search everything
Find any link again by title, destination URL, or slug — your whole history in one place.
Archived on mint
Every page is submitted to the Wayback Machine the moment you save it, so the content survives the site.
Summarized by AI
Each page gets a one-line description, so your library reads like an annotated bibliography.
Rot detection
Health sweeps flag links that stop resolving; one click points yours at the archived copy.
And when you want out: export the entire library as one encrypted, self-contained HTML file.
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