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@JMichaelTX
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@santisbon, thanks. This is very helpful.

@RickJP
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RickJP commented Nov 4, 2018

Great guide. Just what I was looking for.

@gnzgo
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gnzgo commented Mar 6, 2019

Thank you, exactly what I was looking for.

@jinahya
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jinahya commented Apr 28, 2019

Thank you for sharing this information!

@john-lorrenz
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thank you

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muthu32 commented Mar 3, 2020

Very Helpful. Thank you

@bard86
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bard86 commented May 23, 2020

Thnx!

@mals14
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mals14 commented Jun 2, 2020

thanks for pulling this together! do you know if it is possible to search the gists that you have starred? just like one can search forked gists.

@Svastikkka
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@santisbon, thanks

@johnquintero
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Thanks!

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coolaj86 commented Jan 10, 2022

Do you know if it is possible to search the gists that you have starred?

Searching for this myself. I don't know what use it is to "Star" something if we can't go back and find the thing we starred. I thought that was the whole point...

Update: Found it:

https://gist.github.com/YOUR_USER_NAME/starred

Ex: https://gist.github.com/coolaj86/starred

@unlocomqx
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Why don't they make it easier to search your own gists?

@daanta-real
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Thank you!

@hochun836
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Thank you.

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amydevs commented May 10, 2024

just noting this here in case i forget it:

you can also specify a specific time and offset as well:

created:>2024-05-10T01:23:02+00:00

@skplunkerin
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Want to add a few helpful bits:

I have not found a way to get multiple qualifiers to work, hopefully you won't need that.

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