@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk'pandoc' is a document conversion CLI program that can read and write loads of different document formats; mostly for text, but with formulas and references and things; so any type of markdown practically to any other, or to and from html, or ebooks, or wikis or man pages, or...
https://pandoc.org/
@publicvoit@graz.socialMy article about "#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead" from https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/ was listed on the entry page of
@anildash@me.dmOne pattern you can always count on: if you ever explain a technology by describing how the human and social aspects matter more than the obscure technical details, a certain cohort of dudes who are inept at socialization will lash out about their insecurities by trying to condescend. Who here thinks I wrote ~5000 words on Markdown but I don’t know what plain text files are?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber (Anil Dash)
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgAnyone here has any experience with a ToDo/Shopping list one can
- self host
- has an Android app
- allows sharing lists between users
?
(I have already googled, only interested in actual experience)
(EDIT: I am asking for an app because I want to be usable by another person who's not looking for an ideological project or an opportunity to learn markdown or how weird PWAs work. That's why a dedicated app would be a plus. )
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
How Markdown took over the world.
https://anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
saved 2026-01-10
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New Kitten Release!
🚨 Breaking change: You can now add arbitrary JavaScript in script blocks in Kitten Markdown Pages front-matter (and the imports property is gone).
You can also use JavaScript string interpolation and all special Kitten tags (e.g., conditional tags, etc.) in Kitten Markdown Pages.
📦 https://kitten.small-web.org
@hynek@mastodon.socialRE: https://fosstodon.org/@squidfunk/115739987490118848
since nobody listened to me, now you heard it from The Man: stop using MkDocs 😇
⁃ Sphinx: still maintained
⁃ API docs and cross links: work out of the box
⁃ MyST (Markdown in Sphinx): …
@publicvoit@graz.social @anildash@me.dmI've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… off-topic, a GitHub hint. Note the blank line in this screenshot.
I learnt the hard way. Today I discovered some online hints:
GitHub spoiler markdown – <https://gist.…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“TABS [by Mozilla] pulls exactly the data you need—from HTML to Markdown to JSON—using the fastest, most efficient method for each page. It adapts to the structure and complexity of the site, staying stealthy and reliable so your [AI] agents always get what they need without friction.”
Ethical Stealthy AI Scraping (tm) by Mozilla.
#Mozilla
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialbulletty - The TUI RSS/ATOM feed reader that lets you decide where to store your data.
bulletty is a TUI feed reader (RSS and ATOM). Read your subscriptions within your terminal. It downloads the entries for offline reading so all the data is local and yours: your subscriptions, highlights, comments, etc. All in an universal format: Markdown. Backup and sync your data directory your own way.
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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngBeen updating my personal Mastodon tooling to download and convert my bookmarked toots. Here's how little code is needed to download a single message and convert its HTML content into Markdown, all using these #ThingUmbrella packages:
- https://thi.…
@anderelampe@chaos.socialFrohes neues Jahr zusammen.
Ich hab mal ne Frage an Forschende und andere Menschen die mit Daten hantieren müssen: Ich hadere mit mir ob ich in einer Einführung in gute Praxis von Dateinamensgebung neben READM.txt auch #markdown .md erwähne/erkläre.
Wichtig: Es geht hier nicht um Programmieren oder GIT oder ähnliches sondern um Erklärung der Dateiinhalte/RDM.
Meinungen? und Empfehlu…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialClaude Code represents a "ChatGPT moment repeated" and an "extinction-level event" for horizontal software companies focused on human-oriented consumption (Doug OLaughlin/Fabricated Knowledge)
https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/the-death-of-soft…
@frankel@mastodon.topWhy I switched from #Markdown to #Asciidoc for #technicalwriting.
Markdown is good, but Asciidoc is much more! It natively handles file includes, admonitions, spans in tables, and even diagrams—…
@anildash@me.dmLooks like my Markdown piece has been submitted to Hacker News; if you frequent the orange site, I guess please upvote? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556695
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⚙️ Print mode runs by default for non-interactive execution, interactive mode enabled via .i. filename marker (task.i.claude .md), _interactive frontmatter key, or -_i CLI flag
🌐 Remote URL imports cached at ~/.mdflow/cache/ with 1-hour TTL, use --no-cache to force fresh fetch, automatic .env file loading from markdown file directory with support for .env.local, .env.development, .env.production
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza¿En serio, Microslop, tan difícil es incluir código fuente en un documento de texto? Algo que es trivial en Markdown, Org-Mode o LibreOffice en Microslop es una yinkana que no la supera ni Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgI hadn’t planned to do this today, but I just added a new filter to pandoc-lecturenotes https://github.com/mxpiotrowski/pandoc-lecturenotes, which allows you to produce slides in any of the formats supported by
@dawid@social.craftknight.com
@xiffy@mastodon.nl
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaSlowly starting down a bit of a rabbit hole, even though I really don't have time between work, school, and everything that needs done at the new house.
Since taking my first college math course a while ago, I've been taking notes in a combination of Markdown and LaTex for the equations. At first I was just checking my notes into a Forgejo repository, and viewing them via browser. Then we moved, the computer hosting some of my home services suddenly failed, and I realized I wan…
@anildash@me.dmLooks like my Markdown piece has been submitted to Hacker News; if you frequent the orange site, I guess please upvote? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556695
@lil5@social.linux.pizzaI dare you to build a website with plain #php, json markdown and csv. No sql, no laravel, no twig
@gla@mastodon.socialI just published the tiniest utility to strip TOML/YAML front matter from my markdown files. I use it with the excellent Marked, by @…
https://blog.lanzani.nl/2026/strip-fr…
@datascience@genomic.social
@denis@det.socialVielleicht habe ich Lust, mal wieder über ein wenig anderes Zeug als Pen&Paper Kram zu bloggen. Ich will das selber hosten und es sollte möglichst handlich sein (kein Wordpress!) und es soll per ActivityPub ans Fediverse angedockt sein. MarkDown-Support wäre wundervoll und man sollte es einfach auf einem regulären Hetzner Webspace mit den üblichen alten Kram wie PHP hosten können - ohne Shell Access, natürlich.
Gibts sowas?
@luana@wetdry.worldFeatures extras do Chuckya (que é um fork do glitch) em relação ao vanilla incluem markdown, reações de emoji, toots locais, timeline bubble, etc
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI love how simple Kitten’s Streaming HTML workflow makes building features like this, especially when using class-based Kitten pages and components :)
#Kitten
![Screenshot of code, continuation of the same class, starting with the end of the html() method from the previous screenshot and going till the end of the class (the table[inert] style and the onToggle() method are highlighted:
<style>
table[inert] {
opacity: 0.9;
filter: grayscale(100%);
}
</style>
</table>
</section>
`
}
onToggle () {
this.editable = !this.editable
console.log(this.editable)…](https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/115/701/475/591/066/309/original/0dd9da4ffbc5e31c.png)
@3sframe@social.linux.pizzaBuilding a microblog with hugo soon. I really like writing documentation in markdown, just makes sense to blog that way too.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»Schluss mit dem nervigem Scrollen—Mit dieser Open-Source-Lösung verwalte ich meine Rezepte stressfrei:
Genervt von Foodblogs und Rezeptewebsites? Unser Autor verwaltet seine Lieblingsrezepte mit einer Open-Source-Lösung. Warum er darauf nicht mehr verzichten könnte.«
Ich nutze weder Tandoor noch Mealie, da ich Markdown allgemein bevorzuge aber evt ist das was für euch und/oder Ver- so wie Bekannten die gerne Kochen.
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@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukOkular is a great PDF - and a lot of other format - document viewer.
It's quite happy to deal with a few thousand page PDF file; and I just learnt it can also do images, and mark down (and others).
https://okular.kde.org/
@datascience@genomic.socialInteractive resizing of picture and table content in Rmd and Quarto: #rstats
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
@gpummer@t.testitfor.meFür alle, die eine Eselsbrücke suchen um bei Markdown die richtige Reihenfolge der Klammern "[]()" anzugeben, schaut:
https://infosec.exchange/@isotopp/115615445483744207
@publicvoit@graz.social @datascience@genomic.socialAre 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
@xiffy@mastodon.nlBesides publishing the PDF of this guide, I've also added the source documents to github.
You can view the Markdown files here: #xbrlQuickguide #opensource
@ellie@ellieayla.netWaiting for AsahiLinux to support Thunderbolt on Apple M1. It's listed in the docs as WIP. Folks will probably get it working eventually, we just don't know when. Isn't that an annoying thing to (remember to) check on occasionally?
The AsahiLinux docs are built from markdown files in a GitHub repo. Which exposes an Atom feed of commits affecting each file. So a feed reader can occasionally check #github #atom #rss #commits
@xiffy@mastodon.nlAlong the way I learned how to create a nice document from all the Markdown files I have written in Obsidian. With Pandoc and LaTeX stitching the chapters together as one PDF or EPUB. And of course I lost way too much time solving the last typesetting problems, reading documentation of either Pandoc or templating for Latex. It was a fun ride.
#pandoc #latex #obsidian #writing
