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Hi, I started using this as a training tool for people I'm trying to help in meetups and my community (people who have never used AWS, GCP, etc) but a huge prob
by mjayhn 6y ago
Hi, I started using this as a training tool for people I'm trying to help in meetups and my community (people who have never used AWS, GCP, etc) but a huge problem I found out after writing a lot of annotations (and clearly having the wrong expectation) was that you can't edit or have any control over the URLs that the annotations are based on.
If the devs are interested in my use case (understood if not) which is basically a poor mans onboarding tool, I'd love and happily spend some money (not onboarding tool money, those seem to be $1k+/month) on the ability to edit urls, share these, etc.
What I envisioned this as letting me do was creating versioned annotations that let me share them to anyone and they can superimpose those annotations on top of any URL that has the same basic structure behind it amazon.com/$myuser/$mycluster$/$myportal etc. I thought it'd be a really killer tool to use for helping new devs learn AWS more easily than digging constantly digging through AWS documentation, ie: "What is lamba? click button 10 quick bullet points on Lambda" sort of thing.
A lot of these users will be using localhost, their IP, digitalocean IPs, etc instead of a concrete domain name. It'd be great if we could regex the url strings or something like that.
Thanks for your work!
- tedmiston 6y agoMaking the annotations portable across the same site hosted in difference places is an interesting idea. I use Hypothesis a lot to highlight e.g., the few important lines of codes, commonly used config values, etc buried in longer dev docs. This mostly works pretty well. But I do lose my highlights when the URLs change e.g. version 1.0 to 1.1. Sometimes there is a "latest" docs site available to work around this issue but not always. I imagine that a script could be made with the Hypothesis API to migrate annotations across pages and approximately re-anchor them as much as possible.