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Kollaboratives Bloggen | Un*xe

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/07

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Kollaboratives Bloggen | Un*xe.

Via:

Related:

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Publishing a Github Gist to JSFiddle | Toolbox Tech

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/05

I like JSFiddle, but rather keep source code under my own version control.

I was curious, so queried [Wayback/Archive] gist as jssfiddle – Google Search and found [Wayback/Archive] Publishing a Github Gist to JSFiddle | Toolbox Tech

It has better steps than the official documentation at these links:

  • [Wayback/Archive] Pass response directly from a Github repo – JSFiddle Docs
  • [Wayback/Archive] Display fiddle from a Github repository – JSFiddle Docs

    Demo Directory/

    demo.js
    demo.html
    demo.css
    demo.details
    • demo.[ js | html | css ] contains fiddle code for the specific panel
    • demo.details is a description of the demo written in YAML
    ---
    name: Name of the Demo
    description: Some description, please keep it in one line
    authors:
    - John Doe
    - Jan Wisniewski
    resources:
    - http://some.url.com/some/file.js
    - http://other.url.com/other_filename.css
    normalize_css: no
    load_type: d
    ...
  • [Wayback/Archive] Display fiddle from Gist – JSFiddle Docs

    Read a demo from Github Gist and present it as a fiddle.

    Gist files structure

    fiddle.js
    fiddle.html
    fiddle.css
    fiddle.manifest
    File name
    Description
    fiddle.[js/html/css]
    Contains fiddle code for the specific panel
    fiddle.manifest
    YAML description of the Gist for JSFiddle to parse
    Manifest file example
    name: The Name of the Fiddle
    description: Some description, please keep it in one line
    authors:
      - John Doe
      - Jan Wisniewski
    resources:
      - http://some.url.com/some/file.js
      - http://other.url.com/other_filename.css
    normalize_css: no
    wrap: bpanel_js: 1
    panel_css: 1
    Manifest fields
    • panel_html – Language for HTML panel. Accepts:
      • 0 – HTML
    • panel_css – Language for CSS panel. Accepts:
      • 0 – CSS
      • 1 – SCSS
    • panel_js – Language for the JS panel. Accepts:
      • 0 – JavaScript
      • 1 – CoffeeScript
      • 2 – JavaScript 1.7
    • resources – List of external resources.
    • name – Fiddle title
    • description – Fiddle description
    • normalize_css – Normalize CSS by loading normalize.css before any CSS declarations.
      • yes – normalize
      • no – don’t normalize
    • wrap – Set the JS code wrap. Options:
      • l – On load
      • d – On DOM ready

–jeroen

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Only 2 weeks left to enable 2FA for your GitHub account

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/29

If you haven’t done so already, then enable 2FA for your GitHub account now: This will be a requirement in 2 weeks time.

The 2FA/MFA possibility started about half a year ago with [Wayback/Archive] Raising the bar for software security: GitHub 2FA begins March 13 – The GitHub Blog

You can have various means of 2FA, which al start with a choice between:

After completing either of those those, you can view/download a set of backup codes, and you can add more factors to your Multi-factor authentication setup up to these:

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I missed that this has become way easier: Searching code – GitHub Docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/02

For my link archive, the table of contents of [Wayback/Archive/Archive] Searching code – GitHub Docs:

Limitations apply:

Due to the complexity of searching code, there are some restrictions on how searches are performed:

  • You must be signed into a user account on GitHub to search for code across all public repositories.
  • Code in forks is only searchable if the fork has more stars than the parent repository. Forks with fewer stars than the parent repository are not indexed for code search. To include forks with more stars than their parent in the search results, you will need to add fork:true or fork:only to your query. For more information, see “Searching in forks.”
  • Only the default branch is indexed for code search.
  • Only files smaller than 384 KB are searchable.
  • Only repositories with fewer than 500,000 files are searchable.
  • Only repositories that have had activity or have been returned in search results in the last year are searchable.
  • Except with filename searches, you must always include at least one search term when searching source code. For example, searching for language:javascript is not valid, while amazing language:javascript is.
  • At most, search results can show two fragments from the same file, but there may be more results within the file.
  • You can’t use the following wildcard characters as part of your search query: . , : ; / \ ` ' " = * ! ? # $ & + ^ | ~ < > ( ) { } [ ] @. The search will simply ignore these symbols.

There is a truckload of languages supported, though the yaml format of the list is not really human readable: [Wayback/Archive] linguist/languages.yml at master · github/linguist

I’ll try this and see if it works better than Google Search.

Via:

–jeroen

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A pain in the ass: gist include image in markdown in current directory – Google Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/03/08

This revealed so much pain: [Wayback] gist include image in markdown in current directory – Google Search

I wished that – like in the past – it would work just like in a normal github hosted git repository: [Wayback/Archive] How do I display local image in markdown? – Stack Overflow.

The core problem is that though a gist underneath is a git repository, it is rendered in a way that is different than a github repository is rendered, and that way of rendering has changed over the years effectively making it difficult to embed a picture. When you do embed an image requires the uuid/guid of the raw image URL to be included in the markdown, unlike with a regular repository hosted on github.

That is so much pain that I decided to not host documentation in gists any more.

A bit of the pain:

This is an example gist where I tried to host an image: [Wayback/Archive] Windows 7 with PowerShell v2 fails to upgrade to PowerShell v3 through chocolatey: You must provide a value expression on the right-hand side of the '-' operator.

That gist was prelude to my post Chocolatey on Windows 7: “You must provide a value expression on the right-hand side of the ‘-‘ operator.”.

–jeroen

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Learning github actions by creating a repository with a dynamic README.md for your profile information

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/23

TL;DR:

  1. Create a GitHub repository with the same name as your profile name
  2. Add a README.md with Markdown describing your profile
  3. In the README.md, add begin/end HTML comment markers <!-- and --> for various types of dynamic content
  4. In the Actions of this repository, add Workflows for each of the set comment markers that use them to refresh that part of the content using GitHub Actions learning some continuous integration/continuousc deployment (CI/CD) on the fly.

You can spice this up with all kinds of badges to make it look pretty.

HTML Comments in Markdown?

Yes, it is indeed odd to have HTML comments in Markdown where you could just as easy use Markdown comments, but hey: I didn’t define the way this works.

A Markdown comment looks like this:

(empty line)
[comment]: # (This actually is the most platform independent comment)

For explanation on why/how this works, see the below two great StackOverflow answers in this order:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] syntax – Comments in Markdown: concise example – Stack Overflow by [Wayback/Archive] Magnus.
  2. [Wayback/Archive] syntax – Comments in Markdown: explainer – Stack Overflow by [Wayback/Archive] User Nick Volynkin – Stack Overflow

Howto

The below two videos (also embedded below the signature) show how to do this. Thanks [Archive] Jesse Hall 🦸‍♂️ #vsCodeHero (@codeSTACKr) | Twitter for creating them!

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Next Level GitHub Profile README (NEW) | How To Create An Amazing Profile ReadMe With GitHub Actions – YouTube
  2. [Wayback/Archive] UPDATE: Next Level GitHub Profile README (NEW) | GitHub Actions | Vercel | Spotify – YouTube

The description of the videos contain all sorts of links to sites and underlying repositories for:

  • icons
  • shields
  • badges
  • youtube/blog/RSS and other feed actions
  • profile examples

You can see the effects at [Wayback/Archive] codeSTACKr/codeSTACKr in the [Wayback/Archive] raw README.md sources.

Enough to get you some experimentation (:

Watch your commits

One of the drawbacks of mixing manual and automated changes to a repository, is that the automated changes can cause a lot of commits.

This is OK as long as the automated changes add value to the changed content.

In this regard, having stable RSS feeds is important, and YouTube is kind of bad at this when you look at [Wayback/Archive] History for README.md – codeSTACKr/codeSTACKr: videos changing order or popping in/out of the last 5 is kind of annoying.

–jeroen

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Some experience of htmlpreview.github.io as a replacement for rawgit.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/01

With [Wayback/Archive] rawgit.com having sunset years ago, but still having a [Wayback/Archive] few links to it from my blog, it was time to take a closer look at the alternative [Wayback/Archive] htmlpreview.github.io.

First of all, htmlpreview needs more examples. I might submit a pull request for it later, as it is open source at [Archive/Archive] htmlpreview/htmlpreview.github.com: HTML Preview for GitHub Repositories.

Second, some actual example URLs, based on content I previously accessed through rawgit.com.

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Setting up a GitHub project so it is served over https as a github.io and a custom subdomain

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/27

Some links that helped me getting this working:

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Posted in Cloud, Cloudflare, Communications Development, Development, Encryption, GitHub, HTML, HTTP, HTTPS/TLS security, Infrastructure, Internet protocol suite, Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt/certbot), Power User, Security, Software Development, Source Code Management, TCP, TLS, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Git Explorer: a cool tool to visually learn git commands

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/03

This is sooooo cool: [Wayback] Git Explorer

GitExplorer: Find the right git commands you need without digging through the web

What I like is the simple clean UI with a two step selection of what git functionality you want to use followed by a simple usage and explanation.

Very well suites for both referencing and interactive learning.

Bonus: it is open source at [Wayback/Archive.is] summitech/gitexplorer: Find the right git commands without digging through the web..

Via: [Archive.is] Marko ⚡ Denic on Twitter: “You can find the right git commands without digging through the web. “

–jeroen

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Great git videos on YouTube by @shanselman (thanks @simongeering)

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/11

[Archive.is] simon geering on Twitter: “Thanks to @shanselman for creating these great Git Videos. As a senior dev starting to mentor/teach tech skills this is very helpful. What tool do you use for the green arrows and other overlays please? Git 101; GitHub PRs “:

Embedded videos below the fold.

–jeroen

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