Copy Paste Thingy ^{Fairly Private*}

Useful to move text from one computer to another or perhaps storing a rudimentary note-to-self or somesuch. Paste text here, get a URL, retrieve it from anywhere. Note that for privacy purposes, a clip gets deleted from the internal database after a single use.

Clip address (no spaces): The case-sensitive clip address will look like this: clearhat.org/clip/mythingy

0% New feature: click here to select a file to upload, (or drag a file into this box). Note size limit of 50M. (Also note if this feature gets abused, it'll have to be placed behind a username/password which will be sad.) Be nice, so we can have nice things.</rant>
Other new features: You can now upload multiple files. They'll be bundled into a single ZIP when you go to download. And, if your school or company won't allow you to upload an image, convert it to text using a Base64 encoder (here's a good one, and here's one that is an extension you can add to a Chrome browser), then paste the text as usual. When you go to download the text it will be automatically converted to an actual image again.

* By 'fairly private' I mean this: I'm a software developer who created this page because I was using the rather awesome cl1p.net app a lot. Love it. It's very handy, and has a nice, short URL for typing into a mobile device with a limited keyboard. But as often happens with us software guys, as I used the app often, I developed the nagging suspicion that my data wasn't absolutely guaranteed to be private. Don't get me wrong. I do trust the cl1p site. They have a legally-binding privacy policy and all, but if you didn't know already, you should know that all software developers are at least a tiny bit paranoid. It's part of the skillset that makes one a careful programmer: It's because we often consider all possible future paths in order to design the most effective path with fewest bugs arising from unexpected uses. At heart it's really just an attention to detail which most people don't care about. So there I was, posting things like passwords and other minorly private information with that nagging suspicion each time, when it occurred to me that I could easily build this tiny app into my own website and thereby guarantee privacy -- at least for myself. So I created this one afternoon. It is private insofar as I have zero interest in other people's clips (unless someone abuses this little app by uploading stupid amounts of data or something like that, causing me to investigate why my server is down). That's all I mean by 'fairly private' instead of just simply 'private.' In short, I have neither the time nor resources to guarantee absolute privacy (which can technically be done with audit trails, 3rd party certification, and other kinds of proof). That's far more than I need for my own purposes here. This app is freely available for anyone to use, and it's fairly private. And now you have the same issue: you can trust someone stranger's assurance of privacy, or you can build your own and run it on your own server. And... since you obviously read all this text, you are the kind of person who pays more attention to detail than the regular folk, so you're probably a software developer, so here's some links to the open source code I used: pastify and Drag-and-Drop File Upload and Copy to Clipboard w/Javascript (and Bootstrap Tooltips) and W3 PHP File Upload. That is all.

Copy Paste Thingy Fairly Private*

Copy Paste Thingy ^{Fairly Private*}