Writing your own Google Apps Plugins
So I am currently between jobs and I like to use that time to learn new programming languages as I believe that you should try to think outside your day to day experiences. Especially in this world of microservices, it makes sense to broaden your horizon to see if you’re not always applying your favorite lawnmower to a problem that requires a hammer. Given that I have about 4 weeks, I figure I can do more than one so I started with Erlang and I used Google docs to keep track of the notes. I quickly ran into a huge issue: there is no ‘format as code’ block functionality in standard Google Docs! Being used to Atlassian’s Confluence and even WordPress I was a bit undone. What next? Obviously I looked for plugins but they always want all the rights (like, run while you’re not around, access to your bookmarks and browser history, credit card details, you name it) ...