My dear nerds! Who uses a #Markdown to #HTML converter on the command line on #Linux… and which one of these?

Perhaps it is time for the web 1.0 again, like sharing information on stupid, dumb, static web pages. Without fancy layout. Just because sharing information was something the elder did, and it felt good.

Like some of us did in 1999 or so.

Some fine day there will be a Google alternative allowing you to find these. A view from above to this web full of information… we could call it… Altavista, or something…

Used OCR to convert a photo of a magazine cutting of a #knitting pattern my nan had squirreled away for a few decades and converted it to #markdown for future reference.

Now there's a hobby crossover episode I wasn't expecting

Ghostwriter is an incredible, powerful, and yet simple #markdown editor. It has a clean user interface, and makes editing markdown so easy. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I am. It runs on #Linux, #Windows, and #MacOS. https://youtu.be/O_yIPQOPQxA

Earlier this week I saw where #markdown was growing in popularity for a variety of reasons. Ease of use, simple format, great output, etc.

Now I saw where Microsoft is even creating tools to convert their own formats to Markdown.

https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

Do I know anyone who

1) Loves #markdown
2) Can't wait to write a #neovim plugin for logseq-/jupyter-like execution of documents?

Hot something for you to get started.

So I've finished a proof of concept of this thing where I can now execute #markdown code blocks.

The program is called 'md-babel'

This backend (like LSP sever) produces JSON responsed from executing the code block at a source location.

To get interactive feedback and see whether it works, I needed to teach an editor how to interpret the JSON response.

Was a breeze in Emacs (see video). Other editors are next.

Demain, atelier #Markdown avancé, à #Liège, pour les doctorantes et les doctorants qui ont participé à l'introduction.

https://opensolution.be/site/module2/

#LightPad : une alternative au célèbre DigiPad, développée dans La Forge des communs numériques éducatifs #LaForgeEdu

La structure du Pad est définie (en #Markdown) par les niveaux de titre dans un document CodiMD (ou DigiPage ou Framapad) et les contenus sont développés dans ce même document structuré.

Extrêmement simple à prendre en main, c'est le fruit du travail de @achampollion et de @eyssette

à découvrir :
https://lightpad.forge.apps.education.fr/

Been using #HelixEditor full-time several days in a row now. Editing is getting easier. I’m remembering how to do things better and faster. I have three language servers installed now: #Python, #RustLang, and #Markdown. I love seeing errors and warnings right in the editor. I love being able to run the formatter at will. I love being able to use tree-sitter nodes as textobjects. I still have some things that catch me every time. Like when your cursor is sitting on the end-of-line position in normal mode: the difference between 'a' and 'A'. And I’m still not used to going into insert mode while there is a selection growing the selection as you type.

I’m very far from a Helix expert, and I disagree about some things; but I really feel good about this editor.

TeXMe received over 9 million hits in March 2025. That's amazing, but also baffling! Who exactly is loading TeXMe, and from where, that it racks up millions of hits?

By the way, TeXMe is a tiny tool to write self-rendering, distributable LaTeX (MathJax flavour) + Markdown HTML documents. Check it out here: https://github.com/susam/texme

« #MicrosoftOffice works in an office where you pretend to work until you can finally go home. There is no other app that can make you look so busy and serious doing nothing and saying nothing as #PowerPoint. It’s a pro tool for creating #bullshit.

For young people who want to learn—not pretend to learn—there are better ways than ChatGPT and Office apps. That’s why, in recent years, at universities, tools like Notion, Craft, or iA Writer have earned quite some popularity. A common trait of these newer apps is that they use #Markdown to structure text. Many modern writing tools use Markdown. »

https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish

Hey hold on, so support for markdown in toots depends on the instance where you write the post and not on the client/instance that serves the post?

I want my _italics_ back!