Apr 17, 2023·edited Apr 17, 2023Liked by Stephen Gruppetta
I applaud, once again, your efforts concerning making code both pleasing to look at and easy to access as text.
One question: how does one access the alt text of one of your shorter snippets? I can see the alt text, in a tool-tip sort of window, when I hover over the image, but I don't see a way to copy it. (Unlike, say, Twitter's pop-up that comes when clicking the "Alt" button.) Yes, I can get to it by doing View Source and searching for "alt=", but I presume you have something less clunky in mind.
Not that I need to do this, right here and now, but I thought it might be worth asking, as a general matter.
If the answer is, "There is no good way; that's why I use the 'copy code' links to GitHub, and anything that's too short to merit a link should be NBD for you to type in yourself", that's perfectly fine!
I do hope Substack does something about improving the style of embedded code. That would be big.
Your quoted answer is precisely my thinking! I couldn’t find a way to easily copy the ALT text code easily. And I opted to link to a GitHub Gist only for longer code segments. Not ideal, but the default Substack code block is worse, IMO!
I applaud, once again, your efforts concerning making code both pleasing to look at and easy to access as text.
One question: how does one access the alt text of one of your shorter snippets? I can see the alt text, in a tool-tip sort of window, when I hover over the image, but I don't see a way to copy it. (Unlike, say, Twitter's pop-up that comes when clicking the "Alt" button.) Yes, I can get to it by doing View Source and searching for "alt=", but I presume you have something less clunky in mind.
Not that I need to do this, right here and now, but I thought it might be worth asking, as a general matter.
If the answer is, "There is no good way; that's why I use the 'copy code' links to GitHub, and anything that's too short to merit a link should be NBD for you to type in yourself", that's perfectly fine!
I do hope Substack does something about improving the style of embedded code. That would be big.
Your quoted answer is precisely my thinking! I couldn’t find a way to easily copy the ALT text code easily. And I opted to link to a GitHub Gist only for longer code segments. Not ideal, but the default Substack code block is worse, IMO!
Let’s hope @substack upgrade the code block soon!
Nice explanation on the r methods with good illustrative case.
Thanks. I always enjoy digging a bit beneath the surface of things. It’s fun!
Me i missed a good use case when writing https://compileralchemy.substack.com/p/detecting-banned-users-from-scratch. Not a good idea to let banned users in XD.