Generating TinyUrl Like Id's

I was looking into generating id's for a personal site that I'm doing for fun. The first thing I did was Google around a bit to see what other people are doing. There were some pretty good ideas out there, most of them taking a url and hashing it to a Base64 representation.

That was fine and dandy, but the methods they were using were long and hideous. I'm a huge fan of short and simple approaches because odds are, it's already been done by Microsoft. Since everyone was talking about hashing I figured I would see what this was about in my search result. How to Hash Passswords

It was still a little too complicated. I knew there had to be something simpler. Then I realized that on the Path object you can generate a temporary file name. It's pretty short. I tried it out and it was exactly what I was looking for! I just had to chop off the portion I wanted, since I wanted to restrict it to 7-8 characters.

Small Code

Here's a snippet from a post I took offline.

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"Functions should do one thing. They should do it well. They should do it only."

I feel like this is an overused term. It doesn't help that I also feel cursed by what my professor has taught me, "Try to keep your methods down to three to five lines." No matter how many times a fellow developer will compliment how nice my code is, they will argue to the death that you can't possibly have those kind of restrictions.