A tiny browser extension to use aka.ms short URLs even faster, for maximum laziness. Save 5 whole keystrokes!
Type a and press space or tab, then type the shortcut you want (the part after https://aka.ms/), and finally press enter. Through the magic of Javascript, you will be transported, Narnia-like, to the short URL of your specification.
Note: Because there's no intelligence in this extension, it must rely on yours. If you make a typo or specify a shortcut that doesn't exist, you won't end up where you wanted.
This extension is very silly. I know. But Microsoft employees hand out aka.ms URLs like candy, and this is an extremely trivial time saver for us.
Honestly, I made this weird little thing for two reasons: (1) I really am lazy enough to want to type aka.ms/ less often and (2) I wanted to learn how to make a browser extension.
This project was inspired by (and its icons gratuitously copied from) the excellent, actually useful, and far more technically impressive cmd.ms by Merill Fernando.
Please note that while it was developed by a Microsoft employee, this repository is not a Microsoft service or product. This is a personal/community driven project, there are no implicit or explicit obligations related to this project, and it is provided 'as is' with no warranties and confers no rights.