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Keith Pitty
September 12, 2017
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How not to give advice (about Markdown)
A short talk given at the Sydney Ruby or Rails Meetup on 12 September, 2017
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September 12, 2017
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Transcript
How not to give advice (about Markdown) Keith Pitty @keithpitty
@ConversationEDU
How not to give advice?
A story …
One day I was asked …
for advice
A colleague was struggling …
Eleanor
Indonesian launch
i18n yml
id.yml
None
Markdown
nested lists?
a. outer 1 i. inner 1 ii. inner 2 b.
outer 2
None
Markdown
How could I help?
subset of HTML
type attribute
<ol type=“a”> <li>outer 1 <ol type =“i”> <li>inner 1 <li>inner
2 </ol> </li> <li>outer 2</li> </ol>
not supported by markdown
None
I was focussed
on Markdown
None
my advice?
Markdown
HTML
type attribute
None
…
None
…
None
Done!
None
merged PR
None
but then …
Mark
CSS
list-style
ul { list-style: lower-alpha; li:before { display: none; } ul
{ list-style: lower-roman; } }
CSS + Markdown
None
None
None
I apologised
profusely!
time to reflect
Where had I gone wrong?
None
tunnel vision?
lateral thinking?
comfort zone?
tools?
Teamwork?
None
learning opportunity
next time …
meanwhile …
Teamwork!
@conversationEDU
@keithpitty