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🎉 Hooray! It's 2026 and we've finally standardized source maps—a mere 10 years after we started using them! 🙄 Apparently, a Google Doc was the secret sauce holding the web together all this time. 🍝✨
https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/standardizing-source-maps/ #sourceMaps #standardization #webDevelopment #GoogleDoc #milestones #HackerNews #ngated

🎉 Hooray! It's 2026 and we've finally standardized source maps—a mere 10 years after we started using them! 🙄 Apparently, a Google Doc was the secret sauce holding the web together all this time. 🍝✨
https://bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post/standardizing-source-maps/ #sourceMaps #standardization #webDevelopment #GoogleDoc #milestones #HackerNews #ngated

@acrypthash Hi, a very late comment here (I wanted to see if anybody else had used the #googledoc hashtag 😄)

I don't think there is a direct password feature. What you do instead is to make the document visible to everybody with the link, and then *treat the link as the password*.

The links to Google Docs are already of a form that cannot be guessed. So this is equivalent to putting the document up on an easy-to-guess URL and then distribute a hard-to-guess password via some other channel.

@acrypthash Hi, a very late comment here (I wanted to see if anybody else had used the #googledoc hashtag 😄)

I don't think there is a direct password feature. What you do instead is to make the document visible to everybody with the link, and then *treat the link as the password*.

The links to Google Docs are already of a form that cannot be guessed. So this is equivalent to putting the document up on an easy-to-guess URL and then distribute a hard-to-guess password via some other channel.

From discussing with @imperio on a #rustdoc issue, I realize that I might be alone in copy-pasting links into #GitHub issues? You can copy a link from any web page and paste it into the GitHub editor. You get a proper #Markdown link in return!

See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117662#issuecomment-1902094332 for a screenshot of what I mean.

I found this some years ago and I used it all the time now. It also works in other places such as a #googledoc. There you'll want to reset the formatting `Ctrl+\` afterwards.

Share away 😀

From discussing with @imperio on a #rustdoc issue, I realize that I might be alone in copy-pasting links into #GitHub issues? You can copy a link from any web page and paste it into the GitHub editor. You get a proper #Markdown link in return!

See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/117662#issuecomment-1902094332 for a screenshot of what I mean.

I found this some years ago and I used it all the time now. It also works in other places such as a #googledoc. There you'll want to reset the formatting `Ctrl+\` afterwards.

Share away 😀

The friend that plans everything in the #GoogleDoc itinerary is the best kind of friend to have. → https://goo.gle/3o6hb7Z

How to Actually Open a New #GoogleDoc Quickly

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-actually-open-a-new-google-doc-quickly-1850428861

#productivity

How to Actually Open a New #GoogleDoc Quickly

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-actually-open-a-new-google-doc-quickly-1850428861

#productivity

#JournalistsOnMastodon

Folks, I just found a treasure trove:

a list of over 1,300 #journalists that already are on #Mastodon in the form of a #googledoc

In order to give the #BorgSite its final push, journalists there need to see that there really is an audience for them here in the free #fediverse

Some pull marketing would be helpful: follow as many, as you find sensible. This helps a lot.

Please boost!

@feditips
@FediFollows
@fediversenews

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/edit#gid=1320898902

#JournalistsOnMastodon

Folks, I just found a treasure trove:

a list of over 1,300 #journalists that already are on #Mastodon in the form of a #googledoc

In order to give the #BorgSite its final push, journalists there need to see that there really is an audience for them here in the free #fediverse

Some pull marketing would be helpful: follow as many, as you find sensible. This helps a lot.

Please boost!

@feditips
@FediFollows
@fediversenews

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP6HcREtA/edit#gid=1320898902

What is the best way of putting a password on a Google Doc? I am having this issue where I can apply a password in Microsoft Office locally on my PC, but when I upload the file, the document is read only, with the password working.

If I create a Google word doc, I don't see anywhere that gives me the option of assigning a password... I did some searching and found something like
https://password.youfiles.net, but I am not too sure how legit this is... Tying my Google account to a third party makes me nervous.

Can anyone recommend the best way of applying a password to a Google Doc?

#security #password #googledoc

What is the best way of putting a password on a Google Doc? I am having this issue where I can apply a password in Microsoft Office locally on my PC, but when I upload the file, the document is read only, with the password working.

If I create a Google word doc, I don't see anywhere that gives me the option of assigning a password... I did some searching and found something like
https://password.youfiles.net, but I am not too sure how legit this is... Tying my Google account to a third party makes me nervous.

Can anyone recommend the best way of applying a password to a Google Doc?

#security #password #googledoc

#Idea: Open a new #GoogleDoc and write out a bunch of bullet points about a document/memo/essay you want to write then click "Extensions > Convert to Prose". This would call #ChatGPT (or whatever) and convert those bullet points into a full doc which structures the ideas, elaborates a bit, and provides a concrete starting point.

I know I always start docs with a bunch of bullet points and slowly expand on them. Having a robot start that process would help get complex ideas on paper and help with the "blank document" problem.

#Idea: Open a new #GoogleDoc and write out a bunch of bullet points about a document/memo/essay you want to write then click "Extensions > Convert to Prose". This would call #ChatGPT (or whatever) and convert those bullet points into a full doc which structures the ideas, elaborates a bit, and provides a concrete starting point.

I know I always start docs with a bunch of bullet points and slowly expand on them. Having a robot start that process would help get complex ideas on paper and help with the "blank document" problem.

#ApplePages is a surprisingly good application. I hadn't touched it in years because I lived in #Quip or #GoogleDoc

I tried doing my resume in latest version of #MicrosoftWord and I wanted to throw my computer across a room after hours of frustration.

I gave up and redid the entire thing in Pages in 1/4 the time and none of the headaches.

#ApplePages is a surprisingly good application. I hadn't touched it in years because I lived in #Quip or #GoogleDoc

I tried doing my resume in latest version of #MicrosoftWord and I wanted to throw my computer across a room after hours of frustration.

I gave up and redid the entire thing in Pages in 1/4 the time and none of the headaches.

@jessamyn Could you please add me to your comment: 'Smoother "follow someone from another instance" flow' on the #GoogleDoc Thank you. It is one of my pet peeves. Mastodon maybe #federated but depending on server instances settings, more security or less security, an #instance can be isolated. I follow readily but sometimes I don't think that person ever gets notified. 🙂​

@jessamyn Could you please add me to your comment: 'Smoother "follow someone from another instance" flow' on the #GoogleDoc Thank you. It is one of my pet peeves. Mastodon maybe #federated but depending on server instances settings, more security or less security, an #instance can be isolated. I follow readily but sometimes I don't think that person ever gets notified. 🙂​

Part 2 of desperate for help post: Does anyone know of an app that does not lose focus when using #voiceover with a #braille display and an #iPad pro? I have tried #Microsoft word #byword, #IAWRITER and #googleDoc. All lose focus quite a lot, or the braille display will show the cursor at one point, but it is actually at a different place in the text. It is making writing very difficult for my #studies.

I have been using google docs for maaaany years and I still don't understand how those "default styles" work. I lost count of the times I had to increase then line height, add "space after paragraph" and change the awful Arial to something nicer.

No wonder if in general people don't care about the style of the documents if it's so hard to permanently set your own standard.

#googledoc #google #productivity #rant

#Protip, vous voulez sortir des Gafam mais rien ne remplace #GoogleDrive, #GoogleDoc, #GoogleShit ou Micro$oft ? Il y a aujourd'hui de très bonnes alternatives, gratuites ou payantes
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Gibt es eigtl eine #Alternative zu #GoogleDoc, also wo mehrere Leute gemeinsam an einem Text schreiben können?
Bin auf der Suche nach sowas (bitte keine Pads, die kenn ich schon, geht schon um was Dokumentenähnliches)

#GoogleDocs #Alternativen #gemeinsamesArbeiten #followerpower