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Finding most recent forks of gists and github repositories

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/24

A while ago I found out that gist.github.com/lynatan/673e574faa8343fa01d7a91e75065c54 which I mentioned before in Delphi analog to C# ?? null-coalescing operator and Light Table like debugger evaluation and I wanted to

  1. find it back
  2. find the most recent forks of it

The reason was that I was working on the [WaybackSave/Archive] bit Time Professionals on X: “Live now: “Hidden Gems of Delphi Language: Operator Overloading and Class/Record helpers” @jpluimers” session which I presented at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon 2024 | Home where I also could enjoy the company of the other [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon 2024 | Speakers and the famous [Wayback/Archive] IT DevCon 2024 speaker dinner (which attendees can also join for a slight surcharge).

The presentation is at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon2024/delphi_language_hidden_gems/delphi_language_hidden_gems.md at main · jpluimers/ITDevCon2024 · GitHub and pictures of the event at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon2024 – Google Photos.

Back to the problem at hand

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Tribal Knowledge? Getting the public keys from github and gitlab users from their username

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/03

Learned a while ago: if you have the username from a GitHub or GitLab user, you can download interesting that sometimes can make life easier (but not necessarily more secure):

  • github.com/username.keys gives you their public SSH keys
  • gitlab.com/username.keys gives you their public SSH keys
  • github.com/username.png gives you their profile image

And that there are tools like gh, glab and age that can make direct use of them.

I love Twitter, so thanks for these for teaching me these little tricks:

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GitHub: creating a directory while adding on-line adding a file or uploading file(s)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/20

Since git doesn’t have the notion of directories as entities, neither does GitHub.

This makes it counter-intuitive to add a sub-directory when creating a new file on-line in the GitHub web-UI or uploading file(s) there.

I wanted to do this as instead of taking the local route, it was easier to on-line add and edit [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jpluimers/https-imgur.com-a-bmw-e61-remote-fix-sWdk0: Content from https://imgur.com/a/bmw-e61-remote-fix-sWdk0 for Wayback Machine archival.

The GitHub web-UI can indeed do this:

Further reading

You can also do this from the git command-line, by adding an empty file in the directory first. By convention, usually a .gitkeep file is used for that though others use .gitignore files for it.

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On my list of thigs to play around with: ISSUE_TEMPLATE and other GitHub templates/settings

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/05

Somehow I never consciously thought through how on many GitHub repositories, some of the issue reporting steps started with nice templates.

That is, until I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/.github at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind which has:

  1. a folder [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind with Markdown files for different kinds of issues (bug report, feature request and question).
  2. a file [Wayback/Archive] alfred-my-mind/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md at master · nikitavoloboev/alfred-my-mind

So from [Wayback/Archive] ISSUE_TEMPLATE – Google Search a few results for me to get started:

--jeroen

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Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21

Fork of a repository that shows how to do this with normal Homebrew installs [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub has my notes to do a similar thing with Homebrew cask installs.

Fork of: [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub.

TODO: check notes to ensure they really work on a different system and were not a lucky shot.

Notes:

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Some notes on codepoints.net and beta.codepoints.net

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/07

At the time of writing a lot of this might be more recent, but for quite some time codepoints.net had not been updated with code point information newer Unicode releases.

Basically it was stuck at Unicode version 8.0 with some 120k glyphs. At the time of writing Unicode version 15.0 is in beta and the difference between 15.0 and 8.0 is some 24k glyphs.

So I had a quick twitter chat with the author and jotted down the links in this blog post so I won’t forget them.

There I learned it was open source (I think it is the only Unicode codepoint site that is).

Here it goes:

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🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “what’s an easy way to release the code of a project without allowing issues / pull requests? An archived github repo is almost like this, but it doesn’t seem to let you push new commits (I sometimes have code that I want to let people view but don’t want to maintain in any way)” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/11

Hopefully Gitlab can do this: [Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “what’s an easy way to release the code of a project without allowing issues / pull requests? An archived github repo is almost like this, but it doesn’t seem to let you push new commits (I sometimes have code that I want to let people view but don’t want to maintain in any way)”

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@b0rk @MrSwats In a lot of features, GitLab is way ahead of GitHub especially on fine grained settings. Of course this means it is way harder to configure. You can for instance organise your projects in hierarchies and configure access control on each node.”

Though GitLab has other drawbacks:

[Wayback/Archive] __ian__ = RfcReader() on Twitter: “@jpluimers @b0rk @MrSwats Gitlab has no way to disable commenting on commits or blocking assholes though, so 6 of one, half dozen of the other” / Twitter

–jeroen

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Fixing the GitHub gist CSS so the editor uses more than 25% of my screen estate

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/05

Two years ago I asked [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Is there a way to make the @github gist text editor wider and taller? Right now (at 1920×1200) it uses about half the screen width and screen height. That wastes about 25% of screen estate. “.

I still have to figure out how to fix the height, but the width was relatively easy back then. Hopefully this CSS fix still works today.

In the mean time [Wayback/Archive] Add full height gist creation by xthexder · Pull Request #68 · xthexder/wide-github: Conversation permanently fixed my problem.

[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “I fixed the width by modifying .container-lg and changing max-width from 1018px to 95%.”

Until GitHub fixes it themselves, I started with this fix in the extension [Wayback/Archive] Stylus – Chrome Web Store:

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Figuring out the cause of a GitHub personal access token throwing “remote: Permission to write to gist denied.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/17

Last week I mentioned

My forking was needed because of [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Need @github help: Personal Access Token fails on … with a “The requested URL returned error: 403″, but works fine on … Why is that? (I own both repositories)”

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Fork Gist to Repo on GitHub – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/09

It is not a full fork and misses a few things (including the Gist description), but is the easiest way to clone a gist to a regular GitHub repository.

I needed it because somehow pushing to gists was denied without explanation or real GitHub feedback.

Another reason is that regular GitHub repositories show you way more information about the commits than Gists do.

Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Noitidart for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Bruno Bronosky for answering at [Wayback/Archive] Fork Gist to Repo on GitHub – Stack Overflow:

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