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Easily print GitHub markdown as beautiful PDFs that – in Chrome – immediately download

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/26

Printing Markdown with GitPrint

Simply view any Markdown file on GitHub, then in your URL bar replace the github.com part of the URL with gitprint.com — your markdown file will be rendered to a beautiful, printable PDF.

Try an example https://gitprint.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/README.md

Every once in a while I feel like I’ve been living under a stone for years. Today is such a day as gitprint has been around since 2014 and I only noticed it until now.

It’s cool as it prints any github page (including Markdown, RestructuredText, etc) as a PDF file.

Notes:

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Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, GitHub, jQuery, Software Development, Source Code Management, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

VidCast: Chromecast for the rest of the web

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/13

I know, friday 13, bla, bla, but this works great! VidCast: Chromecast for the rest of the web.

It works with: Vimeo, TED, and tons of other sites.

The first I tried is was a great half hour Devopsdays Amsterdam 2015 session “Leslie Hawthorn – Fear of Failing Fast: How to Avoid Sabotaging Your Success”

The easiest way is to drag the VidCast bookmarklet button to your bookmarks bar once, then for videos you want to watch:

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Bleeding Edge: Vodafone UMTS caused WordPress.com “edit link” to be broken in Google Chrome. #fail

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/05

Last week I wrote about Bleeding Edge: version WordPress.com “edit link” broken in latest Google Chrome stable build – or is Vodafone causing this? #fail.

Since then I have researched this further: I verified that the http://1.2.3.4/bmi-int-js/bmi.js link indeed was caused by Vodafone.

They use a mechanism of directing all HTTP traffic through a transparent proxy and rewriting both the HTML and images in compressed form in order to save bandwidth.

There are a few problems with this:

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Bookmarklets: empower your webbrowser

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/02

Next to Greasemonkey – the script engine that empowers FireFox and Chrome, there is another very powerful way to enhance your browser:
Bookmarklets.

Bookmarklets are like shortcuts, but they don’t point to a static URL: they add action, usually by some JavaScript.

If the bookmarklet returns a string, then the browser will follow that as a URL.
But the since bookmarklet  has access to the current page, it can also perform just a local action.

The cool thing is that most bookmarklets work on almost any popular browser.

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