Today I learned that you can enable markdown in Google Docs. This isn’t really full markdown support but it does make interoperating with markdown easier. The best feature is it enables the “Paste from markdown” right-click option.
Today I learned that per the spec, the DTEND value in an ICS file is exclusive for all-day events. It makes sense but it’s not how most people think of date ranges. I ran into this while making a small node script that takes a json array of events and generates an ICS file. This has been the most convenient way I’ve found to quickly bulk create events in Google Calendar. The only issue is the multi-day events were coming up a day short. ...
Today I learned that you can add alt text to images in PowerPoint and Google Slides by right-clicking on an image. It hadn’t occurred to me before but it makes sense that it would be as important as alt text for images on the web if you’re going to share your slides. Likewise, you should mark an image as “decorative” if you want a screen reader to ignore it. This post has some nice examples of how to write good alt text.
Today I learned that you can configure both Google Calendar and Outlook to show the week number in the “month” view. You might find this handy for project/sprint planning — I’ve also been keeping weekly notes with the week number at the beginning of the filename.
Today I learned that Google Drive uses the same video player as YouTube so if you want to link to a specific timestamp in a video you can append a URL parameter like t=<number of seconds>. So to share a link to a video and have it start playing at 10:44, the URL will look like /view?t=644. A colleague also pointed out that you don’t have to calculate the timestamp in seconds — the t parameter accepts a shorthand like so t=10m44s