Write additional metadata back into the source sheet

[micrictor]

There's three changes in this PR - let me know if you would prefer I break it up into three separate PRs.

1. Make redirect matching case-insensitive. Since the map keys were already normalized to lowercase, this fixes an issue where mixed case redirects wouldn't work.
2. Upon redirect, increment the third column ('Hit Count') and write the current time to a fourth column ('Last Visited') for the row of the redirect.
3. Permit users to specify their desired redirect code via environment variable. Primarily, I'd expect users to use this to change between the default permanent redirect and a temporary redirect.

[ahmetb]

I don't think I'll accept the write requests back into the sheet. They will be buggy on concurrent instances. Resp codes do not sound very useful either. Feel free to keep these in your fork.

[micrictor]

Fair enough. Do you want the case-insensitive bit? I can cherry pick it out if you do, otherwise no worries - and thank you for making this!

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I don't think I'll accept the write requests back into the sheet. They will be buggy on concurrent instances. Resp codes do not sound very useful either.

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[ahmetb]

Even then, I don't wanna break anyone's workflow without them noticing. I personally don't use uppercase at all and it does not seem like I'd need it.

[micrictor]

I don't think it would be a breaking change for lookups that currently work - the lookup key is already lowercased here:

https://github.com/ahmetb/sheets-url-shortener/blob/master/main.go#L189-L200

I believe this means is that if I have a shortcut ShortCut, it is impossible for it to match a URL path.

It may possibly impact users if they depend on mixed-case shortcuts not ever redirecting - e.g. if you have a shortcut for gh and need http://example.local/GH to not redirect.