Published 2026-03-14
tag(s): #useless-facts #meta
I added delete support to my Paste bin
clone, Peanut Butter!
Now you when you create a paste, with the name you also get back a UUID, which you can use to
delete it.
If you don't make a note of the UUID right after creating the paste, thought luck.
I want to keep PB simple to use, but having the ability to delete pastes makes it possible to
use PB for quick-discard sensitive information pastes.
Not that I would advocate for anyone to use PB for sensitive information!!!
When I updated the "production"[1] pastes database with the new delete key column, I noticed something:
sqlite> select name, substring(content, 1, 45),date_added from pastes where name = 'NAMEEDITED';
NAMEEDITED|I have a question, can you contact me at mice|2026-03-08 09:04:14
This is weird for two reasons.
One, my email is all over the place, so if someone wanted me to contact them, they could
just send me a message.
Two, I rarely if ever check the pastes database. So this could have gone unnoticed for
a really long time.
In short, if you want to contact me, just send me an email!!!
Of course I am curious, and will send a message to whoever left this paste :)