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I added Markdown support to Google Docs as a 20% project. Honestly honored to be included in this Markdown history :)


This was a great addition. That and using `alt+/` to open options/command palette are my favourite features, but you single handedly made Google Docs spark joy for me


So glad to hear!

And yup, the command palette search change was awesome. Can't take credit for that one though haha


I use this feature DAILY at work, you built something great here. I tend to write in md locally, this makes sharing the work with others easy. Especially to those less plaintext inclined.

One thing I did notice, I can't seem to find a way to set a default codeblock font format. The default font option isn't totally monospaced and so some ascii art looks weird :/

I don't think that has anything to do with your contribution though.

THANK YOU!


Glad you're finding it useful!

Sorry to hear about the font issue. I'm no longer at Google, but going to forward to some friends who still work there (no guarantee anything changes, but we'll see!)


Hanging your jersey from the rafters in the Plain Text Arena. A bullpen of weary cubicle-dwellers salutes you!


I use it almost daily. Thanks!


Seconded. @tomraberbach, today in conversation someone mentioned Paul Buchheit's invention of Gmail as a 20% project. The next time, I'll mention you!


Heh I think the scale is a bit different, but I'm honored :)


It's not a typical day for me, but I sent 0 emails (Gmail is my standard) but edited 2 Docs with Markdown.


Well that's awesome!

Out of curiosity, do you mean the "autocomplete" feature or the import/export/copy/paste feature? (I did both)


Love it!


Thank you! It really does help when I want to quickly whip up some docs to share. :D


Huh, can one natively edit Markdown in Google Docs? This would be one of my main requests for gDocs (as a long time NvAlt/NvUltra daily driver), but how?


There are sorta two separate features:

1. Notion-style realtime "autocomplete" for heading and inline formatting Markdown

2. Full Markdown import/export and copy/paste

These features make Docs interoperable with Markdown, but don't make it a Markdown _editor_ in my view.

Anyway, you can enable the features from Tools > Preferences > Enable Markdown


I so wish Google Docs had a text editor mode.


Mildly ironic that the quickstart suggests starting with an unpinned action

gjtorikian/gh-actions-lockfile@v1

Presumably since it has to run first it must run unpinned?


Arguably, that's exactly the one action that will need to be hash-pinned, since all the consecutive actions will at least be verified against the lockfile.


Right, completely agree! By "must run unpinned" I meant "no way it can make itself run pinned, since it's already running"


It can still be fun and rewarding when it doesn't succeed. The fact that it will eventually end doesn't mean it wasn't worthwhile or impactful. "the journey is more important than the destination" and all that


Question: did the LLM need O(n^3) tokens to solve the matrix multiplication example? Or would O(n^1.5) tokens be enough? Since producing that many tokens is O(n^3) work if I understand currently?


There's also a video of the associated talk here:

https://youtu.be/BJBnR5Sn-sc


Hi there, I'm the author. Happy to answer questions if you have any :)


Hi there, I'm the author. Happy to answer questions if you have any :)


Hi, i might be out of the latest trends here but could you clarify the purpose of a "SDK"?

API's have always been there, but corresponding SDK's? A link to an evangelist article somewhere?


The main problem SDKs solve is providing a way to interact with an API without having to worry about nitty gritty details like serialization and deserialization, authentication, error handling, retries, connection and thread pooling, etc.

When you have a good SDK, interacting with an API feels like working with regular functions and objects in your chosen programming languages, so it _greatly_ simplifies integrating with an API.

Stainless's Series A announcement post might be a good one to read to get the gist: https://www.stainless.com/blog/stainless-series-a


Glad you like it!

I actually have a TODO for what you're describing haha

https://github.com/TomerAberbach/lfi/blob/69cdca0b2ee2bd078f...


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