Actionsheets

Actionsheets is an open-source hobby project with a different take on cheatsheets. Standard cheatsheets are great for getting started, but don't get into the details for advanced or complex use cases. This is where actionsheets come in.

Getting started

Click a programming language in the top bar, and then select or search an actionsheets.

How do actionsheets differ from cheatsheets?

• Actionsheets are expressed in terms of a desired action or result, and the code snippet(s) to achieve it.
• This is a more natural way to look up code snippets. Especially useful for beginners.
• Actions may be complex or comprise multiple steps.
• Actions are not limited to the direct functionality provided by the package API.
• Cheatsheets typically lack more advanced compound use cases.
• Code snippets are data; enabling dynamic generation of sheets depending on user queries
• Sheets can therefore be more feature-complete, as they do not need fit on a single page.

This way of organizing sheets is especially useful for packages or functions with powerful versatile functionality, where merely listing the API does not cover the full capabilities.

Motivation

My motivation for building this curated database of code snippet is out of frustration of the worsening state of the internet in quickly finding short answers to straightforward queries.

• Many website have the code snippet(s) buried between tons of irrelevant text just for SEO optimization.
• The quality of (accepted) answers on Stackoverflow is severely lacking for some programming languages:
• Answers are out of date
• Answers are overly complicated or inefficient (contributions by beginners)
• For the future, this also means that the answers by any LLM are going to have the same issues.
• The answer on the site was for a different question
• The answer on the site was for a more narrow question
• With the increasing usage of LLMs, the problem of bloated low-quality answer results will only get worse.