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0 pointsMenhirMike2y ago0 comments

> Only downside is that the urls look a bit ugly.

If /fred returns HTML, then the URL is perfectly fine, since the only real consumer of fred.md or fred.json are automated systems/API clients, and they couldn't care less what the URL looks like, only that it's predictable.

0 pointsMenhirMike2y ago0 comments

> Only downside is that the urls look a bit ugly.

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manwe1502y ago· 4 in thread

It is a good trick with GitHub though that you can add .patch or .diff to the url to fetch the content without styling

going_north2y ago

Another good one for GitHub is that you can do

    github.com/[username].png

to get that username's profile picture.

theblazehen2y ago

And

        github.com/[username].keys

to get their ssh keys

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amake2y ago

It's not just styling. The content is actually a `git format-patch` patch for the former a unified-format diff for the latter.

moondev2y ago

Adding .pibb to a gist url is another nice trick

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