jez
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Comment · 27 days ago
It would be neat if it there were an option which added distance and elevation gain, but minimized the grade.
For example, a route from SOMA to Nob Hill can be made flatter by approaching from either the east or west. Technically the "flattest" as measured by elevation gain between the two is straight up Taylor from Market, but it's much nicer to bike to the top of Nob Hill by going out of the way (e.g. Polk → California, Embarcadero → Broadway, etc.)
Comment · 2 months ago
Somehow I was hopeful that this would be an announcement about adding syntax highlighted code blocks to Slack messages.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is a relatively recent feature. I was first introduced to it in GitHub's release notes for Git 2.54:
https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54...
And discussion at the time:
Comment · 3 months ago
SQLite has a conceptually similar contribution process:
> the project does not accept patches from random people on the internet
https://sqlite.org/copyright.html
In their case, it's motivated by a desire to keep copyrighted code out of the SQLite implementation, but I'm sure it has a nice benefit of making it so that an extremely widely used project doesn't get drive by, low effort code review requests while still allowing the community to engage.
Asking that "random people on the internet" don't sent code is not altogether a novel, post-AI idea.
Comment · 6 months ago
> Additionally, some repos can be configured to automatically merge PRs when all requirements are met, one of which might be your approval.
If anyone at GitHub is reading this, I’d love a fourth checkbox in the “leave a review” modal that is “Approve but disable auto merge” (alongside Comment/Approve/Request changes)! Even just surfacing “this PR has auto merge enabled” near the Approve button would be great.
Comment · 6 months ago
I want the same mode, but on iOS! Imagine carrying nothing but the phone in your pocket, sitting down at your desk, plugging your phone into the monitor, which has your keyboard and mouse docked, and you have a full development environment.
Comment · 6 months ago
Even in Vim, the editing experience falls over when making markdown tables that have non-trivial content in their cells (multiple paragraphs, a code block, etc.). I recently learned that reStructuredText supports something called "list tables":
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html...
Where a table is specified as a depth-2 list and then post processed into a table. Lists support the full range of block elements already: you can have multiple paragraphs, code blocks, more lists, etc. inside a list item.
This syntax inspired the author of Markdoc[1] (who came from an rST background) to support tables using `<hr>`-separated lists[2] instead of nested lists (to provide more visual separation between rows).
I have found various implementations of list table filters for Pandoc markdown[3][4], but have never gotten around to using any of them (and I've tossed around ideas of implementing my own).
[2] https://markdoc.dev/docs/tags#table
Comment · 6 months ago
What is your Linux photo editing software of choice?
Comment · 8 months ago
Still the only thing I miss about the Firefox right-click context menu coming from Chrome is that Firefox doesn't have a "Look up '<selection>'" in the menu on macOS, to look up in the macOS dictionary, for looking up words I don't know.
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