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I like namespaces. If I'm on a blog post with a /blog/ namespace then I know I can just chop off the slug on the URL to go to all posts. A post is a document within the blog so it makes sense to me that the URL should reflect as such.
https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-public tells me that it is a blog post called learn in public before I even click it. What does /lip have going for it other than being shorter?
I like namespaces. If I'm on a blog post with a /blog/ namespace then I know I can just chop off the slug on the URL to go to all posts. A post is a document within the blog so it makes sense to me that the URL should reflect as such.
https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-public
tells me that it is a blog post called learn in public before I even click it. What does/lip
have going for it other than being shorter?I'll grant that "lip" may be less readable. but that's a different issue than whether or not to namespace with /writing or /blog!