My amazing website
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title: why I removed my self-healing URLs
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description: the act of removing my self healing URLs
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date: 2025-07-07
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- webdev
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In the past, I wrote about how I used [self-healing URLs](https://isabelroses.com/blog/self-healing-urls/). But while rewriting my website for the roughly the sixth time, a realization hit me: _who am I really building this for?_
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That question completely shifted how I approached my site. I had been optimizing for SEO, but the real purpose of my site is self-documentation and sharing what I learn with others who want to learn alongside me.
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With that in mind, I decided to delete the self-healing URLs. I no longer wanted to cater to machines—I wanted to build for people. Self-healing URLs are inherently anti-user. How is a human supposed to remember which number blog post this is? Or worse, if it's just a random string?
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Maybe this will prompt you to remove your self-healing URLs... or maybe it won't :D