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Carbon – Create and share images of your source code

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Re: Carbon – Create and share images of your source code

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Post by eugene-s »

nickjj wrote: post #20
viiralvx wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've found myself using Carbon for sharing code in my tweets, really it's the only time I use it.

It's already pretty easy to do this without Carbon -- at least on Windows. 1. Hit print screen on your keyboard 2. Select the rectangle area that you want to capture 3. Paste it into a tweet You don't even need an intermediate image on your computer unless you wanted to crop it before sending it to Twitter. You may also want to consider a step 0 which is to temporarily bump up the font size in your editor to make it…

Command+Shift+4 on mac. And on Ubuntu there was something too, but I’ve forgotten the combo

Re: Carbon – Create and share images of your source code

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Post by tomc1985 »

JadoJodo wrote: post #28
baroffoos wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You upgrade to a platform that was made for sharing code snippets and not flinging insults and blogspam

I find it frustrating that you not only failed to answer the question to which you responded, but you also failed to provide the name of the alternative platform you so condescendingly espoused.

A disingenuous answer is still an answer. Just because it's trendy to abuse a medium like Twitter for all sorts of unintended purposes doesn't mean its good or right.

Re: Carbon – Create and share images of your source code

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Post by tomc1985 »

Can we please all agree to stop marketing our low-effort side projects like they were SV companies? The about page on this makes me puke.

@carbon_app -- bro, you're not an app! You're barely more than some JS on a page.

"Carbon is used by thousands of developers daily, including experts at..." -- 99% sure this is a lie. "Puffery" if we want to be charitable

"carbon" -- for chrissake "carbon" has like 50 meanings in computing. Name collide much? Did the author even bother to care?

"Beautiful" -- stop using this word. Nobody in computing seems to know what it means and we've cheapened its meaning to whatever stupid colorful, excessive-whitespace, overly-padded pile of crap that floats our way. Formatting that impresses snobby, wannabe graphic designers and clueless executives is not "beautiful", it is "trendy" or "contemporary" at best

Re: Carbon – Create and share images of your source code

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Post by itsrajju »

eugene-s wrote: post #31
nickjj wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's already pretty easy to do this without Carbon -- at least on Windows. 1. Hit print screen on your keyboard 2. Select the rectangle area that you want to capture 3. Paste it into a tweet You don't even need an intermediate image on your computer unless you wanted to crop it before sending it to Twitter. You may also want to consider a step 0 which is to temporarily bump up the font size in your editor to make it…

Command+Shift+4 on mac. And on Ubuntu there was something too, but I’ve forgotten the combo

Shift+PrintScreen. It freezes the screen and lets you draw a rectangle over the area you want to capture.

Re: Carbon – Create and share images of your source code

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Post by mkeedlinger »

I think a lot of people are wondering why this exists.

My first thought was in READMEs, just to be flashy. My thoughts were that any code made fancy in image form could also be found elsewhere, I don't think (brash assumption on my part) that this was meant to be the only way code is presented.

For something like twitter or whatever to be flashy though? Very cool. I dig it.

Re: Carbon – Create and share images of your source code

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Post by chrisseaton »

baroffoos wrote: post #18
chrisseaton wrote: post #7

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How do you share code snippets on Twitter?

You upgrade to a platform that was made for sharing code snippets and not flinging insults and blogspam

That’s not an answer though, that’s just unhelpful snark. I use Twitter because that's where my audience is. I don't have the social clout to move everyone somewhere else.

Re: Carbon – Create and share images of your source code

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Post by nickjj »

itsrajju wrote: post #34
eugene-s wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Command+Shift+4 on mac. And on Ubuntu there was something too, but I’ve forgotten the combo

Shift+PrintScreen. It freezes the screen and lets you draw a rectangle over the area you want to capture.

> It freezes the screen and lets you draw a rectangle over the area you want to capture.

This is what Windows 10 does when you hit print screen on its own (as of a recent'ish update).

Then there's also:

alt + print screen to automatically capture the focused window.

And ctrl + print screen to capture all monitors instead of the focused window.

Re: Carbon – Create and share images of your source code

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Post by Meekro »

chrisseaton wrote: post #7
Meekro wrote: post #4

I love the appearance of it, but there are very few cases where sharing un-copyable blocks of code is actually what you want. Let's say you're making a programming tutorial, or you're publishing an open source library and want to provide a website with code examples. Appearance is important, of course, but your audience will want to copy/paste your examples. I feel like this should be a CSS generator for styling the…

How do you share code snippets on Twitter?

That's a good point! I don't use use Twitter, so that hadn't occurred to me!
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