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Archive for December 17th, 2024

As a tribute to their @isotopp handle history, Kris now changed its name to Köhntopp

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/17

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “LOL, just saw @isotopp changed…” – Mastodon

LOL, just saw @isotopp changed his name to Köhntopp

Well done, Kris. Well done.

ftfy.vercel.app/?s=ö

( the history of the iso isotopp handle is so great, that I was glad I captured it from Twitter before that content got deleted; it is now at wiert.me/2022/06/09/how-isotop )

This Vercel app cannot be archived in the Wayback Machine properly as it then returns a HTTP 500. The Archive.is save succeeded though: [Wayback/Archive] https://ftfy.vercel.app/?s=ö:

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Markdown has been the Internet’s lingua franca for documentation. Microsoft finally the documentation format with markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/17

Finally an easier way to convert Office documents (and other formats) to markdown: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – microsoft/markitdown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. (after Google added a Markdown export feature to Google Docs about half a year ago, and basic Markdown formatting about 2 years ago – see below):

There are quite a few dependencies in [Wayback/Archive] markitdown/pyproject.toml at main · microsoft/markitdown · GitHub, so be prepared for that.

Supported formats (added links for clarity):

The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.)
It presently supports:
  • PDF (.pdf)
  • PowerPoint (.pptx)
  • Word (.docx)
  • Excel (.xlsx)
  • Images (EXIF metadata, and OCR)
  • Audio (EXIF metadata, and speech transcription)
  • HTML (special handling of Wikipedia, etc.)
  • Various other text-based formats (csv, json, xml, etc.)

Google was first though:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Google Workspace Updates: Compose with Markdown in Google Docs on web
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Google Workspace Updates: Import and export Markdown in Google Docs

There is speculation on why Microsoft introduced it just now ranging from “they need it for AI training” to “just late to the game”. I’m with the latter. Apple is even later, so if you want to convert Apple Notes to markdown, then you can use [Wayback/Archive] Import from Apple Notes – Obsidian Help.

Via various sources, including:

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Posted in CSV, Development, Excel, HTML, HTML5, JSON, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Office, PDF, Power Point, Power User, Software Development, Word, XML/XSD | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Some links and notes as I want to write a Bookmarklets to help resize HTML images

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/17

Probably not fully the direction I need to search to (main goal is to interactively edit img tag attributes (basic and style) to manipulate the appearance of pictures in my blog), but should do for now:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, CSS, Development, HTML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »