New cards feature: Cite other cards
We've made it easier to link other cards:
- You can now find a button Cite other card above the main text area
- Clicking this button lets you search for another card
- Clicking on a search result will paste a Markdown link into the text area
Related cards:
Using feature flags to stabilize flaky E2E tests
A flaky test is a test that is often green, but sometimes red. It may only fail on some PCs, or only when the entire test suite is run.
There are many causes for flaky...
New cards feature: Personal RSS feed that includes public and private cards
Your account profile now links to a personal RSS feed. This RSS feed contains the newest public and private cards for all your decks.
New makandra cards feature: Repeating cards
Cards can now be flagged as "Repeating".
Every Wednesday, some of these cards will be moved back to the top of the deck.
This is intended for important cards that you want your team to occasionally repeat, so they aren't lost in the depths of y...
New cards feature: Explicit language declaration for syntax highlighting
Makandra cards will auto-detect the language used for syntax highlighting.
This auto-detection sometimes fails for short code snippets. In such cases you can explicitly declare the language for [Github-style code blocks](https://makandracards.com...
New cards feature: Github-style code blocks
You can now add code blocks without indentation, by using triple-backticks:
```
Code block goes here.
```
Fixing flaky E2E tests
An end-to-end test (E2E test) is a script that remote-controls a web browser with tools like Selenium WebDriver. This card shows basic techniques for fixing a flaky E2E test suite that sometimes passes and sometimes fails.
Although many examples ...
JavaScript: New Features in ES2021
tl;dr
With ES2021 you now can use
str.replaceAll(),Promise.any(), logical assignment operators, numeric separators andWeakRefon all major browsers except IE11.
replaceAll
JavaScript's replace(searchValue, replaceValueOrFn)...
Ruby 2.3 new features
Ruby 2.3.0 has been around since end of 2015. It brings some pretty nice new features! Make sure to read the linked post with its many examples!
Hash#fetch_values
Similar to Hash#fetch, but for multiple values. Raises KeyError when a key i...
PostgreSQL: Expanded display and other command line features
One useful postgres command I stumbled upon recently was \x. It gives you an expanded display which allows you to actually read the results of your select * from queries. The link below describes a few more useful techniques and commands.
Geordi 9.6.0 released: new "did you know?" feature
Geordi will now suggest related commands and options (hand-picked). If a command has suggestions, a single suggestion is printed with a 10% probability after a successful command.