+ [2017-01-25T18:18:32Z] tobiasvl nickdt: you can @username the person who asked you? you have pushed the new changes to the PR?
+ [2017-01-25T20:08:29Z] matsaman <sigh> could someone remind me the URI to get a tarball from a particular commit?
+ [2017-01-25T20:10:34Z] matsaman github.com/owner/repo/tarball/hash
+ [2017-01-25T20:10:43Z] matsaman saved my IRC log now =)
+ [2017-01-25T21:16:54Z] nickdt tobiasvl: Thanks for the reply. They are aware but I was trying to close like you can with an issue.

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Posted by tobiasvl in #github at 2017-01-25T18:18:32Z

nickdt: you can @username the person who asked you? you have pushed the new changes to the PR?
+ [2017-01-25T23:56:02Z] ayee I have ":scream_cat:" in a README.md for my github project, and it renders the emoji as a graphic
+ [2017-01-25T23:56:09Z] ayee how can I make it render the ascii text isntead?
+ [2017-01-26T00:13:15Z] AciD` ayee, when you want to try some markdown, just edit a comment and hit preview before hitting send
+ [2017-01-26T00:14:41Z] nedbat AciD`: or edit a gist. I've been trying, and cannot figure out a way to use backslashes to subvert the emoji
+ [2017-01-26T00:22:41Z] AciD` ayee, a workaround is to use a zero space delimiter ‌ around the :