Stream: shorthand
Topic: sushi gists
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 30 2020 at 18:56):
Hi. Instead of only sharing code here, which is annoying for collaboration, what about we have a gists/fiddle -like thing ?
This could be a feature for fshschool.org, or some other way to have 2+ people look at (and collaborate on) the same fsh, without typing it here
David Pyke (Dec 30 2020 at 18:59):
Sort of like a git repository. But where could we find that?
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 30 2020 at 19:01):
more of a gist than a repo. we'd have a (short) url for that, and we'd exchange that.
David Pyke (Dec 30 2020 at 19:12):
Is https://gist.github.com/ not usable? It has secret gists
Elliot Silver (Dec 30 2020 at 19:26):
I admit I don't know what gists are, but "secret" anything, and having to exchange urls doesn't seem to me to be more friendly/discoverable/accessible than posting code here.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 30 2020 at 20:57):
why secret?
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 30 2020 at 20:58):
The intent is to share.
Elliot Silver (Dec 30 2020 at 20:58):
David Pyke said:
It has secret gists
Just repeating what was said.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 30 2020 at 20:58):
@Elliot Silver you can think of it (my idea) as a google doc
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 30 2020 at 20:59):
indeed, my question was to David - I don't see the relevance of secrets.
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 30 2020 at 21:00):
even better (potentially) would be to add a few feature to fshschool, to upload a fsh to the cloud, like in jsfiddle
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 30 2020 at 21:00):
Chris Moesel (Dec 31 2020 at 00:44):
As it would so happen, we're already working on a feature to support "permalinks" in FSH Online. The idea is that you can type in (or copy) your FSH to FSH Online and then click a "Create Permalink" link -- which will then create a unique link that you can share. When people click the link, it goes to FSH Online with your FSH preloaded (and then they can experiment with it themselves).
Chris Moesel (Dec 31 2020 at 00:46):
There are some technical challenges, however, because we don't actually have a dynamic server. FSH Online is just a straight HTML/CSS/JS app (albeit built using React) that is hosted on GitHub pages. So we don't have a DB to store things in. Right now we're experimenting w/ encoding the FSH into the URL itself (and then running it through something like TinyURL). Stay tuned!
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 31 2020 at 09:23):
https://plantuml.com/text-encoding
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 31 2020 at 09:26):
PlantUML does this. the content is encoded/compressed into a string that can be appended to the URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotli
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 31 2020 at 09:29):
A short URL creates another dependency that you may or not control. Content compression is independent.
OTOH, short URL remains the same when the content changes, but content compression means the url will change for every iteration (which I think is good, but depends on what we want to do)
Jose Costa Teixeira (Dec 31 2020 at 11:38):
so, ideas (taken from how PlantUML works):
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add the possibility to pass encode fsh content and pass it as part of the URL -
http://fshschool.org/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXor
http://fshschool.org?fsh=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -
allow the fsh content to come from somewhere else
http://fshschool.org?&src=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/user/myfshfile
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