If markup is complicated, then the opposite of that complexity must be markdown

For developers, Markdown has long been the lingua franca of the tools we string together to accomplish our work.

But the truth is, most people today who make technology are actually still exceedingly normal, and quite generous. t’s just that they’ve been overshadowed by their bosses who are out of their minds and building rocket ships and siring hundreds of children and embracing overt white supremacy instead of making fun tools for helping you type text

Even AI uses markdown formatting under the hood.

It’s important for everyone to know that the Internet, and the tech industry, don’t run without the generosity and genius of regular people

The majority of the technical infrastructure of the Internet was created in this way. For free, often by people in academia, or as part of their regular work, with no promise of some big payday or getting a ton of credit.

10 reasons markdown won:

1. it had a great brand
2. it solved a real problem: too painful to write HTML, and a legible plain text is better
3. built on behaviors that already existed
4. mirrored RSS in its origin
5. there was a community ready to help
6. it had the right flavor for every different context, for example the Commonmark and Github-Flavored.
7. Released at a time of change in behaviors and habits: You can get people to change their behaviors when they’re using a new tool, or adopting a new technology.
8. Came right on the cusp of the build tool era: there were new at that day.
9. Worked with view source
10. Not encumbered in IP

An alternative to Obsidian or Typora.

It uses the Monaco Editor of VSCode: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/

Mais MkEditor a quelque chose de différent : Il ne cherche pas à révolutionner quoi que ce soit. Il fait juste très bien ce qu’il fait.
(via https://korben.info/mkeditor-quand-dev-timide-cree-editeur.html)

A 0-config SSG

Marmite is very simple. If this simplicity does not suit your needs, there are other awesome static site generators. Here are some that I recommend:

• Cobalt
• Zola

More with Why to use marmite

Simply past a copied html content and it will be rendered as raw markdown on the page.

Simply good

Rename a .md file into .md.html with a reference to a js script, and this file is displayed properly in a webpage :)

It is possible to export SQLite data to markdown 😯

.mode markdown

That's great !

I have to test this tool to organize my ideas in the right directory with contents instead of only one directory of notes !

MDX allows to write markdown with JSX. Nice :) I think I will use it for a new version of my blog written in svelte.

and a big post about markdown: the bad of it for developers and content editors. The feature of markdown are the one's needed in 2000, but not for the modern web. There is no designated successor to markdown., but some needed features are mentioned in the post.

Open source alternative to notion (or typora)

Convert a table from the clipboard (HTML, Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice Calc) to markdown 👍‍

Je testerais cela pour une prochaine présentation en cours !

Avec un guide sur l'utilisation du CLI et de la génération automatique des slides via Gitlab Pages (ou GitPod): https://medium.com/linkbynet/making-slides-from-anywhere-for-anyone-using-marp-gitlab-pages-and-gitpod-35001daf1c93

A truly light editor ! I use it personally for my blog and at work.