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How not to give advice (about Markdown)

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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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  1. How not to give advice (about Markdown) Keith Pitty @keithpitty

    @ConversationEDU

  2. How not to give advice?

  3. A story …

  4. One day I was asked …

  5. for advice

  6. A colleague was struggling …

  7. Eleanor

  8. Indonesian launch

  9. i18n yml

  10. id.yml

  11. None

  12. Markdown

  13. nested lists?

  14. a. outer 1 i. inner 1 ii. inner 2 b.

    outer 2
  15. None

  16. Markdown

  17. How could I help?

  18. subset of HTML

  19. type attribute

  20. <ol type=“a”> <li>outer 1 <ol type =“i”> <li>inner 1 <li>inner

    2 </ol> </li> <li>outer 2</li> </ol>

  21. not supported by markdown

  22. None

  23. I was focussed

  24. on Markdown

  25. None

  26. my advice?

  27. Markdown

  28. HTML

  29. type attribute

  30. None

  31. …

  32. None

  33. …

  34. None

  35. Done!

  36. None

  37. merged PR

  38. None

  39. but then …

  40. Mark

  41. CSS

  42. list-style

  43. ul { list-style: lower-alpha; li:before { display: none; } ul

    { list-style: lower-roman; } }

  44. CSS + Markdown

  45. None
  46. None
  47. None

  48. I apologised

  49. profusely!

  50. time to reflect

  51. Where had I gone wrong?

  52. None

  53. tunnel vision?

  54. lateral thinking?

  55. comfort zone?

  56. tools?

  57. Teamwork?

  58. None

  59. learning opportunity

  60. next time …

  61. meanwhile …

  62. Teamwork!

  63. @conversationEDU

  64. @keithpitty