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Small warning for everyone that are thinking if using Tex colors is a good idea or not

2023-05-02 - Since a few days ago \colorbox and \fcolorbox are broken and Github did't talk about if it's a temporary thing or if it will not be added back.
- 2024-01-04 - Since it has not being added back I deduce that it will never be so I removed all mentions to it on the rest of the gist.
2023-09-29 - Tex seems to not work on h1 to h6 anymore (markdown #'s)
- 2024-01-04 - Now it works again, I'll keep the message for a while to remember that it may change again in the future

As you can se with the above message(s) Tex may not be very stable and may not be an option to you as of the dates expressed above. You can also check other tex problems here.

Github released Tex support and colors* to the markdown and you din't realized

Chat GPT "DAN" (and other "Jailbreaks")

Inspired by this

More of my guides: Debloating MEMu - Debloating Nox (Updated)

This mainly applies to LDPlayer9. They will probably work on the low end options (like LDPlayer5) but not guaranteed.

Debloating LDPlayer

This emulator seems to have less stability issues than MEMu. I think we get the shtick that these emulators do spooky stuff.

Download LDPlayer, preferably an offline version from the version history

A GitHub Markdown Cheatsheet

This show usable Markdown features on GitHub as a side by side comparison. This focuses on Markdown files, while most of also works in comments etc., there are some differences, so keep that in mind.

Mermaid on Github Examples

All of these diagrams are dynamically rendered during html display by Github, the images generated from text inside the Github-Flavored Markdown. None are static images. Mermaid support was released for Github on 2022-02-14

Pros & Cons:

Pro: You don't need to care about the layout.
Con: You cannot control the layout.

Notes:

Not all the features of Mermaid (in particular symbols B-->C[fa:fa-ban forbidden], hyperlink and tooltips) are supported by Github.

Archive.org Scanned Book Downloader Bookmarklet

A simple "1-click" javascript approach to downloading a scanned book from archive.org to read at your leisure on the device of your choosing w/out having to manually screenshot every pages of the book by hand. In short it's a glorified "Save Image As..." approach but consolidated down to "1 click". BTW there may be a much better option than this out there - I just built this as an autistic project to see if it would work.

Demo Video

Obligatory Legal/Disclaimer:

By using this script you agree to delete all book files/images after your 1 hour or 14 days is up! I don't support using this script for any other use cases. After all, none of us have ever kept a library book past it's return date, right?

Rank	Type	Prefix/Suffix	Length
1	Prefix	my+	2
2	Suffix	+online	6
3	Prefix	the+	3
4	Suffix	+web	3
5	Suffix	+media	5
6	Prefix	web+	3
7	Suffix	+world	5
8	Suffix	+net	3
9	Prefix	go+	2

The Sonic Pi file moonlightSonata-RF.rb which plays Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement requires the use of the Grand Piano samples from the Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra produced by Matthias Westlund.

Unfortunately this is no longer available from his website https://sso.mattiaswestlund.net/ However there is an alternative available at https://github.com/peastman/sso from where you can download the library. It is coverd by a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/sampling+/1.0/ Download and expand on your Desktop, or other suitable location and then set the link in the program at line 9 appropraitely for your installation.

The file should be run using the run_file "/path/to/file/location" command as it is too long to run from a Sonic Pi buffer.

An alternative version using the built in piano synth in Sonic Pi is included for comparison.

Comparison of syntax extensions in Markdown flavors

I created a crude comparison of the syntax of the various common Markdown extensions to have a better view on what are the most common extensions and what is the most widely accepted syntax for them. The list of Markdown flavors that I looked at was based on the list found on CommonMark's GitHub Wiki.

Flavor	Superscript	Subscript	Deletion* Strikethrough	Insertion*	Highlight*	Footnote	Task list	Table	Abbr	Deflist	Smart typo	TOC	Math	Math Block	Mermaid
GFM

How to convert markdown to PDF:

This post reviews several methods for converting a Markdown (.md) formatted file to PDF, from UNIX or Linux machines.

Using `Pandoc`:

$ pandoc How_I_got_svg-resizer_working_on_Mac_OSX.md -s -o test1.pdf