Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code

Re:Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code by shuntress on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:04PM (#26170955)

Not trying to be argumentative but this is completely over my head and I do not understand the purpose.

Is there some way to get a CSS snippet out for publishing in a blog/article/presentation or is it only images?

edit: is this purely to add a rounded border/pad that you wouldn't get with WND+SHIFT+S / CMD+SHIFT+4 for sharing on sites where you don't control the style?

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Re:Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code by redisman on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @03:22PM (#26171186)

I'd love this if it was a CSS thing like when people embed Twits. I'm just not sure when you would want an image of code. Most likely use case seems like a README on github or your product page but then you'd want it to be plain text right?

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Re:Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code by callmekatootie on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:07PM (#26175057)

I created a Github Action to generate images for code, within github issues. The benefits:

- Easy to view and understand the image of the code v/s the code block text when using a mobile device. Why? Easier to scroll images v/s text.

- Members will no longer have to rely on the issue reporters and commenters to format their code blocks correctly. Using the in built formatter, the code is always structured properly

- Maintainers can style the code blocks to suit their project's language and guidelines and not put the onus of this on the issue reporter / commenter

This uses carbon (https://github.com/carbon-app/carbon)

The Github Action in question: https://github.com/callmekatootie/carbonate

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Re:Show HN: Ray.so – Create images of your code by schroffl on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:26AM (#26190850)

Now that sounds like an accessibility nightmare :P

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