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That gif went by way too fast. If anyone is confused like me: It looks like Github will now show PDFs inline. It took me a minute to figure out that the GIF was a demo (and this had nothing to do with rendering PDFs into realspace using a 3d printing robot), and the page was from github's official blog.
There really needs to be a standard "pausible gif" format for stuff like this
If GitHub continues on this track of making content available directly in the browser, the use cases are endless as a service. When someone, and someone will, makes git accessible to the general public, features like these will propel GitHub into the general consumer space.
As it stands, git is apparently the only barrier to GitHub being used widely as a backup, file transfer, and website hosting service.
[1] http://LetsGit.herokuapp.com https://github.com/xasos/LetsGit
Any sane reason to store PDF files into git repositories? Why would you version binary files; version LaTeX, or whatever's generating your PDFs.
The example PDF files aren't easily generated with TeX, so I make them in Illustrator and store them with Git. They change a little less frequently than the text itself, and usually once an example is done it doesn't get updated very frequently. In my case, at least, I can't easily version the "raw source" for the examples, as the Illustrator binary files are ~3x larger than the resulting PDFs.
I suppose I could use something like git-annex, but every time I've tried I haven't really been able to get the hang of it, and the time I'd spend learning it is better spent actually writing the thing.
(Incidentally, this new Github feature makes it much easier to browse my examples repo!)
If GitHub continues on this track of making content available directly in the browser, the use cases are endless as a service. When someone, and someone will, makes git accessible to the general public, features like these will propel GitHub into the general consumer space.
As it stands, git is apparently the only barrier to GitHub being used widely as a backup, file transfer, and website hosting service.
Now they are going to show json, xml, yaml, graphviz, audio files, video files, display docx, xlsx, pptx, prettify your minified code, build a database for you from SQL backups and let you query it, set up an environment from your .env files and give you a shell prompt, show you a rendered DOM from your HTML files and virtual dom declarations, display structured data from microformats, microdata and json-ld, let you…
Zawinski's law - "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." Humorous and relevant.
Unfortunately, I can't get a single paper to load on https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love , at least on my laptop. I guess PDF.js is limited to smaller PDF files or it just requires more GBs of RAM to support all file sizes.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zawinski's law - "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." Humorous and relevant.
Is that the same Jamie Zawinski of the "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems." [1] fame? [1] http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
Following his blog is a unique (but not always work-safe) pleasure. http://www.jwz.org/blog/