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This application will be able to read and write all public and private repository data. This includes the following:

    Code
    Issues
    Pull requests
    Wikis
    Settings
    Webhooks and services
    Deploy keys
    Collaboration invites

Note: In addition to repository related resources, the repo scope also grants access to manage organization attributes and organization-owned resources including projects, invitations, team memberships and webhooks. This scope also grants the ability to manage projects owned by users.

I am the author of it, this is indeed too much, will remove the unnecessary scopes, the software needs to read the contents only.

I changed the scopes and removed: email and private repos.

Why still require write access to public repos if it's only reading?

This is default behaviour for OAuth apps in github. I will have to migrate to Github Apps for more fine-tuned access.

Yikes

Ew, flagged it ASAP.

Looking at the examples I mourn. I wonder if the author ever saw a real book. No table of contents, no chapters, no page numbers, not even proper margins. There’s so much one can do to lay out code for paper nicely and none of it is here.

Thanks for the feedback, yes there is a lot to improve.

If it’s going to simply guillotine content between pages, is there a better way to present it? Can PDFs have arbitrary length pages with better divides? Or one massive page? I guess I’m assuming nobody actually wants to print these and PDF is just a nice format.

I print code from time to time, when I have to modify an existing project I never read before. Perhaps 5 or 10 pages only. I like to make annotations with a pen, or cross irrelevant parts.

I usually use an editor to try to make sensible page jumps first, and in an extreme case I used adhesive paper tape to make a looooong page and then help to refactor the code.

There are some pdf libraries that can format inputs into pages with margins defined in some config file. But I had to ask Claude to make a script as there are so many parameters…

Tcpdf or mpdf for PHP… fpdf or weasyprint for python.

Something to improve, I use gotenberg, and it doesn't do it by default, need to somehow cut it nicely.

A little of a tangent, but I always thought it’d be cool to have certain libraries printed out in very high quality as posters. Redux was one example in particular—something very concise yet powerful and kind of worth admiring to that extent.

I was thinking of getting an ink-tank printer to just print codes and read it (brother TCP 820dw) . Especially the codes suggested by qwen/gemini/claude to review it or get ideas before merging it or discarding it or re-prompting it.

Sitting at the computer for long does me no good.

From the iTerm2, one could go in the menu option shell and hit print (buffer) and it would just create the whole pdf with colors intact.

Is it just my (iOS) device or are the chapters/tables just split randomly across pages?

why does it need access to my private repositories?

You can select the repositories you give access to, give access to private if you want to print them.

I changed the scope to be "public_repo", better to be safe and just work with public repos only for now.

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