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After Time created ads inside markdown versions of its webpages, meant for AI agents, not humans, Perplexity blocked the ads from influencing its search index (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/perplexity-blocks-times-ads-serv…

Perplexity blocks Time’s ads served to AI agents, calling them ‘deceptive’
Perplexity has blocked Time’s markdown agent ads from influencing its AI system, labeling the practice “deceptive."

I rediscovered an old archive of my wiki, which used OddMuse, a wiki engine written in Perl and developed by @… (the good old time)
So I decided to write a Python converter to bring it back to life. I’ll probably discover that 80% of the content is useless, but the remaining 20% might still be worth preserving.
The converter is crappy but it works…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Time Magazine zeigt KI-Bots separate Markdown-Seiten mit eingebetteten Anzeigen

Time Magazine zeigt KI-Bots separate Markdown-Seiten mit eingebetteten Anzeigen
Das Time Magazine betreibt eine zweite Version seiner Website nur für KI-Crawler – inklusive Werbung, die nur sie sehen. Die sollen in Chatbot-Antworten landen.

I'm amazed by *just how bad* Gemini can be. A Google product, operating inside a Google doc, can't create a Google doc element…and lies that it has. Also struggles to convert a very basic LaTeX file (almost Markdown) into GDoc correctly. How is this a product. (I know…)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@publictorsten/117081965131151970
“[Perplexity] warned that publishers who deploy ‘deceptive advertising like markdown ads‘ risk a reputational downgrade in Perplexity’s proprietary search index, including a hit to their t…

Got bitten by pytest-cov not recording coverage in tests for a pytest plugin. Because the pytest plugin gets imported before coverage recording has a chance to start.
#python #pytest #coverage

from my link log —
MyST: a markdown flavor and parser for Sphinx.
https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
saved 2020-10-17 https://

🔎 Overview
MyST - Markedly Structured Text - Parser A Sphinx and Docutils extension to parse MyST, a rich and extensible flavour of Markdown for authoring technical and scientific documentation. Get Started L...

#Markdown in /src
https://htmx.org/essays/markdown-in-src/

Time Magazine schaltet Werbung gezielt für KI-Crawler
Das Time Magazine betreibt eine zweite Version seiner Website nur für KI-Crawler – inklusive Werbung, die nur sie sehen. Die sollen in Chatbot-Antworten landen.
h…

Time Magazine zeigt KI-Bots separate Markdown-Seiten mit eingebetteten Anzeigen
Das Time Magazine betreibt eine zweite Version seiner Website nur für KI-Crawler – inklusive Werbung, die nur sie sehen. Die sollen in Chatbot-Antworten landen.

If you need automatic wrapping of labels in ggplot, the {ggtext} package by @clauswilke@genart.social has you covered: https://wilkelab.org/ggtext/articles/theme_elements.html But make sure you also check out the rest of the functionality of the package to add markdown fromated…

heise | Markdown-Werkzeugkasten: Marked 3 für macOS im Test
Marked 3 vom Entwickler Brett Trepstra vereint Markdown-Vorschau, Lektorat und vielseitigen Export. Wir haben die App am Mac getestet.
https://www.

Markdown-Werkzeugkasten: Marked 3 für macOS im Test
Marked 3 vom Entwickler Brett Trepstra vereint Markdown-Vorschau, Lektorat und vielseitigen Export. Wir haben die App am Mac getestet.

🧠 Hooks enforce deterministic checks outside the prompt, sessions are distilled into summaries and confidence-scored instincts, and a Memory Vault shares Markdown context across harnesses
🛡️ #AgentShield scans prompts, hooks, #MCP configs, permissions, secrets and agent files, treating t…

Got sick of the Markdown Presentation tools out there so just had the robots made exactly what I want. Complete with graphical editor of decks and themes.
A go library thats embedable in other systems - last image shows it embedded in the AI Planboard system i showed recently.
woop woop.

That feeling when your renderer can handle a component that outputs HTML inside link text in Markdown that’s embedded in HTML.
(Yes, I’m bragging.)
#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech

Es ist gut zu sehen, dass das nicht nur mir passiert #markdown

Yes, the command line can be powerful, but I was tired of spinning up a terminal window regularly only to convert a #Markdown file to a certain output format with #pandoc. So to scratch my own itch, I wrote a small python extension for

Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/…

Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec
Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache

Javadoc That Feels Like Your Website
#lookandfeel

So ist das schön. Mit CopyQ (https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/) kann ich nun den Clipboard-Content via Pandoc einfach zu Mediawiki > Markdown und umgekehrt formatieren.
Außerdem wird sämtlicher "RichText" (i.d.R. HTML)-Content in nem Tab "auto-markdown" automatisch als Markdown zum dire…

I think I can get behind this . . .
http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html?title=theWebOfMarkdown

Also ich hab echt keine worte für. Bei ChatGPT hab ich ohne grosse mühe eine zusammenfassung von als Markdown von der KI bekommen, er hat sogar noch die Struktur vorgeschlagen.
Das ganze hab ich auch bei Gemini machen wollen, seine Antwort, darf ich nicht aus Datenschutzgründen WTF.
Da bin ich echt sprachlos, muss aber dazu sagen, das ich bei ChatGPT im Pro Abo bin und bei Gemeini halt den günstigsten Abo. Wenn ich nun bei ihm eine stufe höher gehe und dann nachfrage, das wohl ke…

That's a nice little utility, also available as a #launchbar action
#markdown #html #opensource

@… This is great!
But there seems to be something wrong when converting Markdown to XML—the text is missing, even though it’s fine in the other target formats.

@… This is great!
But there seems to be something wrong when converting Markdown to XML—the text is missing, even though it’s fine in the other target formats.

If I do say so myself, I do love expressive I can be with Kitten.
This is me injecting raw HTML markup into a Markdown code block in a Kitten Markdown page to highlight specific lines in a code block¹.
(The string interpolation of the HTML as an array is a hack that bypasses Kitten’s default sanitisation and should only be used with trusted content.)
PS. I’m going through all the tutorials on the site to update them to reflect the current state of Kitten after the three-mon…

@… another conceptual question re: #BSSG
How do I turn a draft into a post?
bssg post allows editing a draft, but doesn't turn in into a published post.
The most simple solution would be to mv from drafts/ to src/.
But that wouldn't…

BSSG/README.md at main
BSSG - BSSG - Bash Static Site Generator. A simple, efficient, and portable SSG written entirely in Bash. Converts Markdown posts/pages into static HTML sites with RSS, sitemaps, tags, archives, and easy CSS theming. Runs on Linux, macOS, and BSDs.

One thing one can learn from the #AI people: when solving a problem write down what you learn and all the decisions you make on the way in a markdown file, and read this if you come back to continue working on it or try to improve your solution.

heise | Offene Notizensammler: Vier Alternativen zu Apples Notizen-App im Test
Viele Notizen-Apps speichern Inhalte in geschlossenen Datensilos. Wir haben vier flexible Alternativen getestet, die Ihre Daten als Markdown-Dateien verwalten.

Offene Notizensammler: Vier Alternativen zu Apples Notizen-App im Test
Viele Notizen-Apps speichern Inhalte in geschlossenen Datensilos. Wir haben vier flexible Alternativen getestet, die Ihre Daten als Markdown-Dateien verwalten.

I think I can get behind this . . .
http://scripting.com/2026/10/06/005559.html?title=theWebOfMarkdown

Bernd: "Nutzt Du eigentlich Skills?"
Mela: "Ja, einen."
Bernd: "Hast Du den selbst geschrieben?"
Mela: "Ja."
Bernd: "Was tut der?"
Mela: "Der setzt meine Markdown-Defaults."
*grillenzirpen*
Bernd: "Pff."
*grillenzirpen*
Mela: "Ist Dir das nicht fancy genug?"
Bernd: "Neee."
Bernd: "Ich schreibe gerade einem, der alle unnötigen Aktionen verhin…

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Pi-hole behind Tailscale. How To Write With An LLM. Looking forward to Git 2.56 — and 3.0. Markdown in /src. North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. Call an HTTP API with curl: Reading Resources. Agent Harness — A complete guide. How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments. Open Source - Who holds control. 2026 Password Manager Tier List: Does Yours Stack Up? Javadoc That Feels Like Your Website.

@… a ha! Have you heard of using Markdown for feed content? Does anyone do or support that?

@… bad Markdown processors? My Hugo blog is written in markdown, and the goldmark processor it uses handles niceties like typographic quote marks automatically.

I feel this in my bones.
My failure to produce/deliver contains multitudes, but this is the core of the issue. The audience and (more importantly) exchange for any type of content have all but collapsed. And the “AI” discourse is either science, ethics yelling fights, or markdown astrology. I have no interest in participating in any of those fields.
https://borretti.me/article/no-man-is-an-island

I figured out a simple way to do callout boxes in pandoc's markdown, and having fiddled with it all morning, I am posting about it in case anyone is interested: https://codeberg.org/ddrake/simple_pandoc_callouts/

for those interested in such things, Arcaneum now has an install subcommand that will add a watcher to a directory and reindex any changed files once committed.
you can keep a markdown knowledge base up-to-date async behind the scenes
in the repo, but not released
https://github.com/cwensel/arcaneum

GitHub - cwensel/arcaneum: CLI tools and Claude Code plugins for semantic and full-text search across code, docs, and technical references.
CLI tools and Claude Code plugins for semantic and full-text search across code, docs, and technical references. - cwensel/arcaneum

@… @… Weeeeeeeell… they’d happily generate markdown files for LLMs to ingest, yes.
But hand author them in excruciating detail? Not anyone I’ve seen so far.

@… oh fascinating, yeah — thanks. I saw that on @…’s latest: https://

A markdown export feature would be nice tho...

@… @… I guess the issue is that there’s no standard syntax for cross references. If you restrict yourself to, say, pandoc Markdown with explicit IDs, it’s trivial to implement.

@… @… I guess the issue is that there’s no standard syntax for cross references. If you restrict yourself to, say, pandoc Markdown with explicit IDs, it’s trivial to implement.

Been working on a project->many plans->worklist with Claude for ages but always struggled to keep track of progress and goal over 10 or 20 step pieces of work.
Made it write me a tool to view all the markdown files, real time updating etc. This helps SO MUCH.
With a bunch of these projects in a dir and implementation decisions project goals etc in a RAG database its amazing to go back and figure out why something is how it is and past decisions.

Are you making slides with Quarto or R Markdown and need a timer e.g. for breaks or group work? There is the {countdown} package for you: #rstats

This is a lovely Markdown/Mindmap app for MacOS.
And the authors opensourced their state-of-the-art rendering engine for people to build alternatives, check it out:
nodes-web.com

Hill I’m willing to die on: Markdown is terrible—it’s klutzy solution for a problem (formatted text) that should be solved with better user interfaces, but we’ll never see those because people are now sufficing on Markdown.

@… @… yes, using a good text editor with Markdown-mode support like Emacs or vim does make that easier, but web-based editors like GitHub's are fairly dire without the Preview tab.

Pushed up some new examples on how to use intrastate for declaring/managing state transitions
https://github.com/cwensel/intrastate/blob/main/docs/examples.md
Of specific interest is using it to read and update "state" in a markdown document. For e…

intrastate/docs/examples.md at main · cwensel/intrastate
A Go CLI for explicit, reviewable, deterministic workflow state transitions. - cwensel/intrastate

Interactive resizing of picture and table content in Rmd and Quarto: #rstats

Built a little full text search optional vector embeddings RAG server - single binary no dependencies or external things (just the embedding model if you opt in). Works with markdown files.
It’s so nice to finally have trivial sub 1 minute setup RAG, been really happy with the result

R learning for applied statistics by Chenxin Li: #rstats

Actually any self-hostable journal apps recommendation are welcome
Only found jtx for caldav and it was disappointing. And searching for self hostable journals in general I only found "journiv" which is vibe coded (and not open source) so I'm not really willing to use it.
I guess I'd want easy formatting (I do like markdown, but here I'd prefer UI-based), a calendar view for the entries, image support. Audio with transcription would be nice too, even if I could use the keyboards dictation mode for that. Could be a good web app with or without mobile apps option, as long as the web worked well on mobile.

I found an amazing command line Markdown browser, like "less" but for MD files, it is called glow.
I got it from brew, and I love it.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116987035704390404
WYSIWYG has been around for 50 years* now—I'm positive a editor that (for example) can edit Markdown without showing the control characters while having a user-friendly interface is doable.
*try it yourself, go to https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/ and load st76book.dsk and boot. Type BRAVO.RUN [Enter]
Here's the manual https://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/_cd8_/altodocs/.bravomanual.press!2.pdf

Is there really no Ghost plugin or whatever for easy footnotes?
(PSA: Please do not reply by just googling for this. Only recommend something if you're using it yourself and it works. No, I won't use Markdown just for footnote support.)

➤ OpenOlat 21.0 major release is out
Learning and coaching areas separated, new Rooms module with booking, Course Planner automation and to-dos, Word/Markdown import, AI essay questions with grading and formative feedback, new "Gap mixed" question type, 2FA one time code and much more.
#OSS #LMS #elearning #eAssessment #OLAT