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Hah, I just noticed that the url has base64 json in it. Is there a name for this pattern?

`{"w": "googler", "d": "an idle person", "p": "noun", "e": "my googlers runnin' over the kitchen sink"}`

I call it the "too lazy to set up a database" pattern (I'm the original author :P). There should be an signature in there too so hopefully tamper-proof.

Haha! Minimum Viable Product!

That's just a query string with extra steps.

X with extra steps... sounds like a REST call. REST is just HTTP with extra steps. DBMS is just a pile of files with extra steps.

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