Paul Bissex

dpaste.com

I created this pastebin in 2006 and it’s been in continuous service ever since.

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Originally I made it for fellow early Django adopters in Freenode’s #django IRC channel.

It caught on. By Django 1.0, the framework’s debugging page had added a “Share this traceback” button using dpaste.com.

The iPython/Jupyter %pastebin command targets dpaste.com as well.

The fact that two widely used Python projects rely on dpaste.com means I take site reliability especially seriously. I have automated tests confirming the site API functions in the way those projects expect.

Features of note

  • User accounts, with proxy login via GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, or Google
  • Responsive layouts
  • 474 syntax choices
  • 100% HTTPS
  • Uses private (unguessable, unpublished) URLs for all items
  • Versioned REST API for item creation
  • Analyzes code snippets before submission and suggests syntax setting

Technology Stack: Django, MySQL, PythonAnywhere

https://dpaste.com/