Just found out that Plaxo died. So bye bye for this link:
–jeroen
via: [WayBack]Sean Parker’s other notorious startup, Plaxo, is finally dead — here’s how it influenced Facebook
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/28
Just found out that Plaxo died. So bye bye for this link:
–jeroen
via: [WayBack]Sean Parker’s other notorious startup, Plaxo, is finally dead — here’s how it influenced Facebook
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/28
Clever, as I didn’t know you could directly refer to the YouTube preview image using the “/0.jpg
” trick:
Youtube videos
They can’t be added directly but you can add an image with a link to the video like this:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE " target="_blank"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE/0.jpg" alt="IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE" width="240" height="180" border="10" /></a>
Or, in pure Markdown, but losing the image sizing and border:
[![IMAGE ALT TEXT HERE](http://img.youtube.com/vi/YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE/0.jpg)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUTUBE_VIDEO_ID_HERE)
Source: [WayBack] Markdown Cheatsheet · adam-p/markdown-here Wiki · GitHub
If you allow using resources outside of YouTube, then you can use gifs.com to render the video into a gif image and use that image in the above construct.
I tried that with a few seconds from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHOpw55TI-U which resulted in https://gifs.com/gif/liquid-prompt-Lg1kPp and the gif file https://j.gifs.com/Lg1kPp.gif
via: [WayBack] flash – How to embed a video into GitHub README.md? – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] aloisdg for answering)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/28
With the continued progress of non-local storage and distributed computing., I wonder how this is evolving over time:
[WayBack] +Alan Cox changed my thinking years ago with a simple statement that I’ll paraphrase as: “all (file based) data is a program that gets executed when read”… – Jan Wildeboer – Google+
–jeroen
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