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Introduction After you run a survey, someone always asks for a printed copy of the results. If you built the form in Google Forms, the Responses tab already draws you nice charts, so printing that screen straight off should just work, right? Try hitting print from the responses page, though, and you get one broken page — even though there are plenty more questions below the fold. The pie charts in the Summary tab get sliced in half at the page boundary, too. I ran into this wall myself, and eventually built a tool for it: PrintImg, which splits a tall screenshot into as many A4 pages as it needs. ...

Have you ever asked an AI to “put this in a table” and gotten back text littered with pipes (|) and dashes (-)? It looked like a clean table right there in the chat window — but the moment you copied it into a messaging app, it turned into a mess of symbols. Those symbols are Markdown. These days you run into it everywhere — GitHub READMEs, technical blogs, note-taking apps like Notion, even the replies an AI chatbot sends you. ...

May is a special month in Korea — packed with occasions to reach out to the people we love. Children’s Day (May 5), Parents’ Day (May 8), Teachers’ Day (May 15), Couples’ Day (May 21)… it’s no accident the whole month is called Family Month. Flower shops overflow with carnations, and KakaoTalk fills up with heartfelt digital cards. Sending a digital greeting card has become second nature. But I want to ask a simple question. ...

Sound Familiar? 3 PM. Your phone rings, right on schedule. “I posted an announcement on the website, but the text looks weird. There are question marks everywhere.” The person on the other end insists they “just typed it normally, nothing special.” But if you’ve dealt with Korean systems long enough, you already know where this is going. A few more questions confirm it: they copied and pasted from an HWP document directly into the web editor. It looked fine in the preview. But after saving, this is what appeared on screen: ...