Web Excursions: October 6, 2012

5 HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed I didn’t know, and now that I do, I’m just a little bit happier. dotfiles/bin/pinboardhtml A (better) script for grabbing Pinboard links to a local bookmark file. AppleScript Library - Brati’s Lover You know how you always tell yourself you’ll get all of your reusable code into a library and save yourself hours of heartache? AppleScript away… 12 Incredible CodePen.IO Demos These really are incredible. CSS/… applescript, bookmarks, webdesign

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GitHub Tip: Easily Sync Your Master to GitHub Pages

On the occasion that you’re working on a web-related project using GitHub, you may want to simply mirror your demo pages or entire branch over to the Github Pages for your project to make them web-accessible. An example case for this would be the development of a JavaScript tool that includes an “examples/” section. It would be most convenient to just let people browse that as a webpage from GitHub, keeping it up to date every time the branch changes. git, github, quicktip

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Markdown Linking Services With the Google API

I no longer have any faith that any API will stick around all that long. Search APIs are becoming fewer and fewer. Google1 still offers the Ajax Search API, but it’s not convenient to use with System Services and such because it requires non-default libraries to work in Ruby and other scripting languages. It’s easy in PHP, though. It’s not my favorite language to use for local scripting, but it was the easiest solution to the problem. I think… markdownservices, php, service

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