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So an unfortunate reality of the world today is that sometimes you need an image for a post that doesn't need a photograph, if only for better exposure with emb
by polm23 6y ago
So an unfortunate reality of the world today is that sometimes you need an image for a post that doesn't need a photograph, if only for better exposure with embeds. This is great for that. It's also great for posting code on Twitter.
I see a lot of people complaining about not being able to copy-paste code. That's a legitimate issue. As chrisma0 pointed out, the URLs can have a one-to-one correspondence with gists, so in blog posts you can just link directly to gists with little loss of convenience. Also note that it seems to use Twitter's alt text correctly at least.
An even better option would be to use a steganographic technique like pico-8 carts do to embed the text and then use an extension (or oembed or something) to surface that where appropriate.
pico-8 cart details:
https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat