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The new integrated Markdown parser I’ve been implementing in Kitten has been kicking my ass for the past few weeks but I think I finally have it fully working and seamlessly so. Expect a new release this/next week that brings the parsing of Markdown pages (.page.md files) in your apps up to the standard of the recently-improved runtime Markdown parsing in Kitten HTML tagged-template strings (within `<markdown>…</markdown>` blocks).
The coolest thing is I was able to impleme…

Me: I’ll just add seamless Markdown support into HTML using JavaScript template strings, how hard could it be?
Markdown: Let me just change the order of the source and link text in links. And footnotes? You hadn’t thought about how footnotes alter source order had you, chum?

When I wrote my last blog post, I noticed an minor issue, so fixed it and got a new release of Markdown Master CMS released.
https://markdownmaster.com/pages/home.html
Full list of changes this release:
### New Features
* Add support for custom form submit …

MarkdownMaster Content Management Software
Flat-file and client-side content management software utilizing simple markdown files for publishing to the web

@… As others have mentioned, there are a few options for reasonably well supported static site generators. Hugo, Jekyll, 11ty, Gatsby, take your pick.
Any of them will let you write in Markdown and spit out all the static files to host it somewhere.
For a fairly simple blog, the cost and complexity savings of just generating static pages feels like the ri…

I have a scratch Markdown file with dozens of mermaid diagrams, and when rendered, it makes me feel like a super-villain planning world domination. 🦹‍♂️

I get why browsers don’t support native markdown — then where would all the ads and tracking go? But it kind of makes me want to make a minimal little browser that registers for mdtp:// and just renders markdown fetched via http. Probably wouldn’t be viable without the ability to detect the presence of an installed app that handles it and a graceful fallback path, sadly.

Seriously, why has the PHPStorm/IntelliJ Markdown plugin been broken for so many years? I don't want a preview, the settings all day to just show me the editor, so it shows me only the preview for README.md, and split-screen for anything else.
WHY? HOW is a company with JetBrains' engineering prowess not able to fix this, years after I first encountered and reported it? As have many others?
#PHP

how i remember markdown link syntax
it’s tidy to [put the link out of line][anchor]. the link text and anchor are both in []. the anchor is like a footnote reference so it goes after the link text
[anchor]: https://example•com
if the link text is the same as the [anchor][] the anchor can be abbreviated
if the url is not too unwieldy it can go inline in place of the anchor in ()
the change of brackets []-> () distinguishes anchors from relative URLs

Do I know anyone using DayOne? I am curious if the application has seen any improvements in the last couple of years.
I have abandoned it 3 years ago due to “too many thin but deep paper cuts” mostly around the Markdown editor which led me to feel like the focus of the team behind it is somewhere else.
I have been using Bear meanwhile. Which has been absolutely fabulous in terms of the quality of the editor. I am missing some features in Bear that I really like & appreciate:
1) automatic location; 2) on this day; 3) show entries from location.

Just ran into a basic flaw in the commonmark spec/parser.
https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/issues/807
Going to try and work around it in Kitten as I’m using Markdown-it, which implements the commonmark spec, and exhibits the same behaviour.
(This …

Contents of

 tags wrapped in 
 tags are not left alone if they contain empty lines · Issue #807 · commonmark/commonmark-spec
Contentions of HTML preformatted text blocks (
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) are, correctly, left alone: e.g., 
a b 
 rendered correctly as, with the contents untouched: 
a b 
 However, if you wra...