Show HN: A site to post and read code snippets and generate a PNG of the source(blinkofcode.com)
blinkofcode.com
Show HN: A site to post and read code snippets and generate a PNG of the source
http://blinkofcode.com
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Reminds me of http://instacod.es/
It's a really cool front-end experiment, but I fail to grasp its usefulness.
http://instacod.es/101573
http://instacod.es/101573
Instacodes was made as a joke I think. It's like posting food photos on instagram, but for programmers.
Hey guys! This is a little project I've been working on and I was hoping to get some feedback. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
what made you to create this app? i haven't found any use case for myself yet so i'm curious.
I made the app because I am always looking for little code snippets such as cases where I need to find regex to extract URLs or Emails, so I figured why not create a site where people can post short little bits like that and make it searchable? So that was the motivation.
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Nice and useful idea, but you need the snippets to be "live"; for example, enable comments and editing, so that snippets get validated/improved/curated over time. Links to relevant stack overflow questions would be great as well.
There actually are comments. Making them "live" as you say is actually a really good idea it can be like a "proposed change" kind of thing where a user makes a change and people vote on it to see if it gets changed or not. If a certain amount of people vote for the cahnge then it replaces the old code.
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what would be cool as well, if the javascript snippet to export the code would already contain a javascript code editor (like ace or so), then I could throw in my raw code to your website and get a editable code box to embed in my own website.
Nice concept.
Feedback: the code boxes are too big in the majority of cases, e.g. http://blinkofcode.com/5590ed12c57dd447d43e5ad0
Feedback: the code boxes are too big in the majority of cases, e.g. http://blinkofcode.com/5590ed12c57dd447d43e5ad0
You could probably chuck the sourcecode itself into a text segment of the png.
Seems to be down right now.
It doesn't seem to have gone down for me, it's possibly just taking a while to load for whatever reason.