This weekend, I got a hankering to improve my domains and web tooling. Last week, I purchased some new domains, and now it's time to put them to work. My first project was a URL shortener service for my use. I built this using a small bit of PHP, an "htaccess" file with an Apache rewrite rule to clean up the URL parameters. Under the hood, I decided to use an SQLite3 database as a backend. The shortener service will be shared between a couple of my sites, with the primary user being the shorter domain name. My second project was setting up AWS Cloudfront for the Shortner domain to host media that I'd like to share. The next step will be to either swap out my blog's media system or build one just to upload to the s3 bucket behind AWS Cloudfront.