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jsoma / README.md
Last active September 6, 2025 11:17
How to use pandoc and Markdown to build a simple reveal.js presentation (and a bit about how to customize it, too)

Requirements

First you need to install pandoc.

I used brew install pandoc to install via Homebrew since I'm on a mac.

Writing your presentation

Make a slides.md for your slides (or name it whatever you want!). I put images in an /images/ folder. You can see how links and images and all of that work from this sample:

@steinwaywhw
steinwaywhw / One Liner to Download the Latest Release from Github Repo.md
Last active October 11, 2025 23:11
One Liner to Download the Latest Release from Github Repo
  • Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
  • Use grep to find the line containing file URL
  • Use cut and tr to extract the URL
  • Use wget to download it
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \