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My 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

One 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?

A 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/

from 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

Super annoying that macOS doesn't do quicklook for Markdown files in the Finder but Markdown Preview works a treat.
#macOS

I'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.

Pisanie w #Markdown jest taaakie wygodne. Nie wiem jak ja to zrobiłem, że kiedyś próbowałem i mi się nie spodobało...

An update on pandoc-lecturenotes (a set of #Pandoc Lua filters for producing slides and lecture notes from a single #Markdown document):
1. Support for “native” slide formats
2. Support for Typst for formatting PDF lecture notes

An update on pandoc-lecturenotes (a set of #Pandoc Lua filters for producing slides and lecture notes from a single #Markdown document):
1. Support for “native” slide formats
2. Support for Typst for formatting PDF lecture notes

An update on pandoc-lecturenotes (a set of #Pandoc Lua filters for producing slides and lecture notes from a single #Markdown document):
1. Support for “native” slide formats
2. Support for Typst for formatting PDF lecture notes

Looks 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

I hate Discord. The platform is proprietary, the U/X is just completely confusing and it's difficult to find anything.
If you run a project, I love @… - it's open source, the U/X is great and you can archive everything in markdown (and much more).

sooo, markdown links. without looking it up. please comment how you can remember this, and why we have to put up with this in the 1st place...

Looks 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

https://github.com/ellieayla/argparse-help-markdown extracts all the --command-line=arguments supported by a CLI tool built with the Python argparse library, and writes them as a markdown table.
It's like your-cool-script.py --help, but for embedding into README.md during CI.
No dependencies outside of standard library. Single file module. Works great with @… 's cog.

Alguém aí da URSAL? @… ?
Parece que a instância mudou muito, o visual estš muito mais bonito!
A instância estš permitindo markdown? E escrever textos mais longos?

I 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…

heise | Mit Markdown strukturiert texten: Was Sie wissen müssen
Markdown unterstützt Sie beim fokussierten Arbeiten mit allem, was Text enthält. Wie Sie daraus schöne PDFs und HTML-Dokumente machen, zeigt dieser Workshop.

Frohes 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…

we need a way to asynchronously load markdown into another markdown file, for the agents
maybe something like MARKDOWNHttpRequest (MHR)
(gotta keep the capitalization pattern the same)

Introducing #Markdown for #Agents
https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/

Mastodon días.
Una entrada recién salida del horno:
Convirtiendo ficheros markdown a gemini mediante md2gmi
En mi blog: https://jdrm.info/convirtiendo-ficheros-markdown-a-gemini-mediante-md2gmi.html
Y en

I 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

Added information on HTML, CSS, and Markdown Fragments to the Kitten Components and Fragments tutorial, including a little TypeScript type declarations file you can add to your projects so you don’t get type warnings for them when you import them in your projects:
https://k…

This guy is not one of my coworkers, but if he were I'd give him a promotion
https://buttplug.engineer/@qdot/116013563036905129

RE: https://mstdn.dk/@opensourceguiden/116024646514819664
Import og export af Markdown er for fedt!

I wonder if there is a list of websites that support
curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" aka serving markdown directly.
then there could actually be a "browser" on remarkable tablets.
I also still wonder how firefox does the "read mode"

Insider-Vorschauen für Notepad und Paint mit mehr KI-Funktionen
In neuen Versionen von Notepad und Paint für Windows-Insider ergänzt Microsoft weitere KI-Funktionen. Notepad lernt mehr Markdown.
https://www…

Decades into enriching webpages with semantic meaning, taxonomies, JSON-LD, etc... and 2026 is "why not plain text tho"
https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/

Anyone on here fancy themselves a TinaCMS expert? #ssg #javascript

I start to leverage the true potential of #codingassistants only now. So far, I crossposted my blog posts by first transforming them from #Asciidoc to #Markdown by hand. Feasible, but boring.
I …

It was time I learned #neo4j, so I got some help writing a #markdown #notes app that uses Neo4j for storage and a knowledge graph. Enjoy.

Good breakdown on the “Claude Mental Model” powered by markdown
❤️ https://indiantinker.bearblog.dev/slurping-the-claude-code-word-soup/

R learning for applied statistics by Chenxin Li: #rstats

@… @… Jeg kavet lenge etter en Evernote-erstatter, men landet til slutt på Obsidian. Åpen kildekode, massevis av åpne utvidelser, Markdown-formatering, bilder, mm.

If you’re looking for a great open-source project to use and sponsor, check out
@….
I’ve been using Pandoc for years, it’s a huge time-saver for publishing documents from Markdown and an essential tool in my workflow.

«New security flaw found in Microsoft Notepad courtesy of its latest “innovative” additions»
Exactly in such places there should be no code errors. Markdown in text editor really shouldn't be the problem. But now Microsoft is showing us how AI coding (not) works and how error-prone it is.
P.S. I use Vim for the markdown, text & code files.
📝

the 2010 smartphone was too inefficient with HTML
the 2010 smartphone needed a distinct simplified m-dot web site
the 2010 smartphone needed a proprietary app store to run native software
it was impossible to make efficient HTML web sites that worked in multiple contexts
the 2026 agents are too inefficient with HTML
the 2026 agents say HTML is too complex and burns too many tokens
the 2026 agents *need* markdown
it is impossible to make efficient HTML web …

New #VS2026 Insiders update brings fast scrolling, middle‑click scroll, HTML‑rich copy/paste, slimmer margins, colorized completions, partial‑accept suggestions, and streamlined Markdown preview. Small changes, big gains in flow. #visualstudio

🥳 New Kitten Release
• Added `target` and `data-*` to the list of safe attributes you can specify within curly brackets when writing Markdown in Kitten.
Enjoy!
:kitten:💕
#Kitten

Anyone 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. )

This is really interesting… I know i’m going to spend a weekend on this, but just not this one yet !
❤️ https://doneyli.substack.com/p/i-built-my-own-observability-for

Building a microblog with hugo soon. I really like writing documentation in markdown, just makes sense to blog that way too.

How does Fedi feel about extending Markdown admonitions with taglines?
```
> ![TIP For fun]
>
> Join the Fediverse!
```
WDYT?
https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/3031

Facing a pretty strange behavior in #VSCode while editing Markdown: when using the backtick to wrap code, the editor behaves like it's a grave accent waiting for the next character to be entered. If the next character doesn’t accept an accent, then the backtick is not displayed. It is saved in the file though.

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

'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/

Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in Notepad in Windows 11 allowing attackers to execute remote programs by tricking users into clicking malicious Markdown links (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr

❗ Aplicaciones de notas y migración 🗒️
Si trabajšis con el ordenador a menudo, seguro que os suena esta historia. Se manejan muchas notas, con muchos formatos, fotos, enlaces, tablas, etc. Hasta ahora uso #UpNote , una herramienta absolutamente increíble, lo mejor que he visto tras probar al menos 10 aplicaciones. Me quedaría con ella para siempre, pero cada vez me preocupa mšs la seguridad y

Besides publishing the PDF of this guide, I've also added the source documents to github.
You can view the Markdown files here: #xbrlQuickguide #opensource

RE: 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): …

@… 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.…

He encontrado un desarrollo que convierte markdown a gemini. Estupendo para pasar los documentos de Pelican a gemini poniendo bien todos los enlaces, secciones... Se viene artículo para el blog y retocar todos los artículos de la cšpsula

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…

⚙️ 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

@… Statyczna strona w https://gohugo.io/ albo https://astro.build/ generowana z plików markdown, postawiona na https://www.statichost.eu/ czy https://page…

Slowly 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…

Claude 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…

Waiting 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

This is really cool, for anyone trying to quit #Medium with a clean export !
🔁 https://brennan.day/introducing-meddler/

I love how simple Kitten’s Streaming HTML workflow makes building features like this, especially when using class-based Kitten pages and components :)
#Kitten

Some thoughts about Obsidian and creating a PDF out of that markdown.
#obsidian #pandoc #latex

¿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

Features extras do Chuckya (que é um fork do glitch) em relação ao vanilla incluem markdown, reações de emoji, toots locais, timeline bubble, etc

📝 #mdflow - Turn #Markdown files into executable #AI agents! Multi-backend CLI for running .md files against #Claude

Along 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