Justin Henry jhenry

Convert Word documents to markdown with pandoc

I use pandoc to convert masses of Word documents to markdown. Still working on a generic script, but for now here's the "gist" of what I type into the terminal:

$ myfilename="example"
$ pandoc \
-t markdown_strict \
--extract-media='./attachments/$myfilename' \
$myfilename.docx \

Quickstart Guide to undertsanding the Qualtrics Survey File

This information is likely to quickly become outdated when Qualtrics next changes the formatting of the QSF file. This guide was started February 2017. I hope that it is a useful introduction to understanding the contents of the QSF file that one can download from Qualtrics.

This document includes:

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

	#!/bin/sh
	## Requires openssl, nodejs, jq
	header='
	{
	"kid": "12345",
	"alg": "RS256"
	}'
	payload='
	{
	"iss": "https://example.com",

	<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
	<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.22.2/moment.min.js"></script>
	<script>
	$.ajax({
	url: '/d2l/api/lp/1.9/courses/{OrgUnitId}', //Grab course offering details
	type: 'GET',
	dataType: 'json',
	success: function(data) {
	var obj = data;
	//Define dates from Course Offering as moments (if a date exists)

	use framework "Foundation"
	use scripting additions

	property scpTarget : "user@example.com:~/public_html/uploads"
	property publicPath : "https://example.com/uploads/"

	on open fileList
	repeat with thisFile in fileList
	set itemPath to the quoted form of the POSIX path of thisFile
	do shell script ("scp " & itemPath & " " & scpTarget)

	{
	"name": "project-name",
	"description": "Template for static sites",
	"version": "1.0.0",
	"homepage": "http://www.project-name.com",
	"author": {
	"name": "Adam Reis",
	"url": "http://adam.reis.nz"
	},
	"license": "UNLICENSED",

	# Spec File 1
	def app
	FooApp
	end

	describe FooApp do
	# for some reason, `app` resolves to the definition BarApp given in Spec File 2 below,
	# instead of the above definition
	...
	end

	require "showoff"

	require 'pusher'
	Pusher.app_id = 'insert Pusher app id here'
	Pusher.key = 'insert Pusher key here'
	Pusher.secret = 'insert Pusher secret here'

	class PresentationController
	def initialize(app)
	@app = app