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seanh / html_tags_you_can_use_on_github.md
Last active January 24, 2026 03:23
HTML Tags You Can Use on GitHub

HTML Tags You Can Use on GitHub

Wherever HTML is rendered on GitHub (gists, README files in repos, comments on issues and pull requests, ...) you can use any of the HTML elements that GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) provides syntactic sugar for. You can either use the syntactic sugar that GFM (or other GitHub-supported markup language you're using) provides or, since Markdown can contain raw HTML, you can enter the HTML tags manually.

But GitHub also allows you to use a few HTML elements beyond what Markdown provides by entering the tags manually, and some of them are styled with CSS. Most raw HTML tags get stripped before rendering the HTML. Those tags that can be generated by GFM syntactic sugar, plus a few more, are whitelisted. These aren't documented anywhere that I can find. Here's what I've discovered so far:

<details> and <summary>

A `<detai

Scaling your API with rate limiters

The following are examples of the four types rate limiters discussed in the accompanying blog post. In the examples below I've used pseudocode-like Ruby, so if you're unfamiliar with Ruby you should be able to easily translate this approach to other languages. Complete examples in Ruby are also provided later in this gist.

In most cases you'll want all these examples to be classes, but I've used simple functions here to keep the code samples brief.

Request rate limiter

This uses a basic token bucket algorithm and relies on the fact that Redis scripts execute atomically. No other operations can run between fetching the count and writing the new count.

using System;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
public static class TaskTupleExtensions
{
#region (Task<T1>)
public static TaskAwaiter<T1> GetAwaiter<T1>(this ValueTuple<Task<T1>> tasks)
{
@joshdholtz
joshdholtz / SomeFragment.java
Last active December 22, 2022 09:41
Android Google Maps V2 - MapView in XML
public class SomeFragment extends Fragment {
MapView mapView;
GoogleMap map;
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.some_layout, container, false);
@BitStab
BitStab / DashboardView.cs
Created May 21, 2012 06:59
Fragment in MVVMCross
using Android.App;
using Android.Content;
using Android.OS;
using Android.Runtime;
using Android.Views;
using Android.Widget;
using Cirrious.MvvmCross.Android.Views;
using Cirrious.MvvmCross.Binding.Android.Views;
using MobSales.Logic.ViewModels;
@hjr3
hjr3 / e-commerce.md
Created April 3, 2012 05:35
Examples of RESTful API calls for E-commerce platforms

Examples of RESTful API calls for E-commerce platforms

These examples are type 3 RESTful API requests and responses. The JSON-HAL specification is used to implement HATEOAS.

Some of the examples are based on my work as architect of the RESTful API at http://www.hautelook.com. All proprietary information has been removed.

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