Gists for embedding code

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

So, I might have found a slightly better method for sharing code in posts that I complained about the other day. GitHub has a thing called Gists. It’s like a tiny repository you can paste a code snippet into (or upload a source file). Once that’s done, you can just paste the URL of the Gist into Wordpress - it recognises it and does this:

ForEach(0..<3) { number in
 Button {
 // flag was tapped
 flagTapped(number)
 } label: {
 FlagView(flagOf: countries[number])
 }
 .rotation3DEffect(.degrees(flagSpinAmount[number]),
 axis: (x: 0, y: 1, z: 0))
 .opacity(flagOpacity[number])
 .scaleEffect(flagScale[number])
 .animation(.default, value: flagSpinAmount)
}

I came across this being used on a blog post (about using the camera in apps) from Gaspard Rosay.

Sometimes the Gold is in the Comments

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I’m still not 100% clear on @ObservedObject v @StateObject. So when YouTube offered up this video, in which Paul promises during the intro that I’ll understand the data bindings by the end, I thought it would be the video for me.

I guess I should really have twigged that I’d never heard of @ObjectBinding, but I pushed on to the 12 minute mark when he imports the Combine framework. Hang on, what’s that?

Checking out the comments, it all becomes clear.

Sadly, it’s a page down in the comments, when it’d be great to be pinned to the top.

When we’re publishing content in a tech field that’s changing, there probably is probably some benefit to tagging it with versions - for example, my post on git is sort of useful now, but in three years? Who knows. Like this video of Paul’s it may be unhelpful and confusing.

I’ll put some thought into how I might do that. Going back and updating things is probably not realistic (this is certainly the case for twostraws’ videos - he’s prolific), but branding content with the versions of things might be. Wordpress dates content at the bottom of the post (on my current theme) so that would give some future traveler some chance, but the more novice they are (and currently my understanding of these topics is only helpful for novices) the less likely they are to be equipped to translate the date into the likelihood of the content being outdated. Perhaps I can use tags somehow. I’ll think about it.

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Gists for embedding code

Sometimes the Gold is in the Comments