# gist Gist is a GitHub feature for sharing code snippets as Git repositories, with support for forking, cloning, and API management. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Preview Arbitrary HTML DevFeed: [Preview Arbitrary HTML]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Jay (noreply@blogger.com) Published: 2015-01-08T15:23:00Z Content type: tutorial Language: en Sources: [Jay Fields]() Topics: [HTML](), [gist](), [GitHub](), [Markdown]() Tags: [gist](), [github](), [html](), [markdown]() ### AI overview A short tutorial explains how to preview arbitrary HTML by changing a GitHub Gist file extension to .md. GitHub renders Markdown Gists with inline HTML, making this useful for sharing short-lived rendered HTML. ### Source excerpt I'm a big fan of https://gist.github.com/ for sharing code. It's fantastic for quickly putting something online to talk over with someone else. I've often found myself wishing for something that allowed me to share rendered HTML in the same way. For example, a gist of the HTML for this blog entry can be seen here: https://gist.github.com/jaycfields/82e2cc0a588bd83a91f4. If I want someone to give me feedback on the rendered output, that gist isn't very helpful. It turns out, it's really easy to see that HTML rendered: switch the file extension to md. Here's the same gist with a md extension: https://gist.github.com/jaycfields/e383b12b6ff9bd49c40a This all works due to the way Github renders markdown gists, and markdown supporting inline HTML. I wouldn't use this trick to create any data you'd like to have online in the long term, but it's great for sharing short lived HTML. © Jay Fields - www.jayfields.com ## Top Github Languages of 2014 (So far) DevFeed: [Top Github Languages of 2014 (So far)]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Adam Bard]() Topics: [GitHub](), [Programming](), [BigQuery](), [Python](), [gist]() Tags: [bigquery](), [gist](), [github](), [programming](), [programming-languages](), [python]() ### AI overview An analysis of GitHub Archive data from the first half of 2014 compares programming-language repository counts with equivalent periods in 2013 and 2012. The author cautions that GitHub's language-detection heuristics may substantially skew the results. ### Source excerpt It's that time of year again! Today, we'll look at just over a half-year's worth of Github data to draw unsubstantiated conclusions about the relative popularity of programming languages. Ok let's go! ## Presentation slides and writer's block DevFeed: [Presentation slides and writer's block]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Monica Dinculescu Published: 2014-04-09T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Monica Dinculescu]() Topics: [Template](), [Markdown](), [gist](), [C](), [C++](), [Java]() Tags: [c-plus-plus](), [gist](), [java](), [markdown](), [presentation](), [template]() ### AI overview The author describes a workflow for overcoming writer's block when creating presentation slides: outline the talk, let the outline develop, use a simple presentation template focused on content, and rehearse with presenter's notes. ### Source excerpt I am the poster child for writer's block. I can't write the #ifdef header guard correctly for a brand new C++ class, I don't remember the order of the public static void main args incantation in Java, and for the life of me, I can't start working on an empty presentation. Not even if you promise me pizza. (Please promise me pizza though.) Start with an outline There's already an amazing speaking.io post about writing outlines which you should read. The tl;dr is that you start with the top-level things that you want to talk about (feel free to s/2Pac/Biggie/g in that example if a) you have good taste or b) you're from the East Coast because c) yolo), and then slowly, but with gumption, start developing dem ideas. I personally take that post literally and write my outline as a markdown gist. The top-level ideas are ## headers, the supporting points are sub-bullets, and there's a lot of "???. Profit!" and notes to future-Monica, because present-Monica is usually a jerk. Time to procrastinate This is great! You have an outline! You deserve a break. No, really; take a break. I let this baby stew for a couple of days, so that it gets nice and tender. Nobody likes an undercooked outline. It's also not a terrible idea at this point to ask some of your friends to read your outline and tell you if this would be a talk they wouldn't hate listening to. Time for Skeletor™ Once you think you've procrastinated enough and it's time to actually work on your presentation, you'll be tempted to start thinking about slide design, typefaces, and the kind of cat gifs you'll include for bonus points. Don't. I mean, definitely include cat gifs, but that time isn't now. I'm pretty sure "being OCD about typography" is correlated with "being really good at writer's block", so I can promise that you'll waste many evenings choosing drop shadows before you realize how screwed you are for content. I've sorted this out by having a really basic presentation template, affectionately named Skeletor, t