This love letter to #Markdown is marvelous.

https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish#fnref-30857-threeways

#Markdown usage question:
is there any reason why people put *inline* code between triple backticks when single backticks would suffice?

I see that a lot on github, and my syntax highlighting doesn't like it.

Tip of the day: Many people use #Markdown documents, citing the ability to make global edits to the formatting. In #DEVONthink, similar global edits in the formatting are possible in rich text documents as well. Here is, how that works. #notetaking #pkm #productivity #tipoftheday https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20240521-formatting-rich-text

Nuevo Blog programado desde 0 con quasar.dev https://myblog.clonbg.es/nuevo-blog-programado-desde-0-con-quasar-dev/ #Blog #Markdown https://clonbg.es

Bin auf der Suche danach, wie man in #Markdown gendern kann, auf diesen Artikel gestoßen: https://denktmit.de/blog/2021-06-07-gendern-in-markup/

He hecho una prueba desde #Moshidon para escribir con #Markdown y no ha funcionado. ¿Sabéis si masto.es admite markdown? ¿Será que soy una patana y he hecho algo mal?

EDIT: Ya me han dicho que la instancia no lo admite, gracias!

ReEDIT: Ya me han dicho que Mastodon no lo admite xD

Just saying, if anyone wants to find the most efficient way of finding the digits of an integer, this might be it :

``` c
#include <stdio.h>

// _ = indentation

int count_digits(int arg) {
__return snprintf(NULL, 0, "%d", arg) - (arg < 0);
}
```

Credit to this guy on #StackOverflow -> https://stackoverflow.com/a/34629799

EDIT : Oh, I guess @Mastodon doesn't support #markdown.

I like how @ia thinks:

Why are we sending our kids to a school that looks like a #Microsoft ad? To prepare them for the future. Does equipping children with Office tools truly serve this purpose or does it serve the purpose of cementing a life in the products of a software monopolist?

I ask myself the same question. This is a great read, and I look forward to the other 5/6ths @reichenstein:

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

Remember folks: "#Markdown is subversive."

"Word has layout capabilities, it’s widely understood and marketed as a word processor. Technically, it is geard towards formatting and layouting. And yet, professional journalists, professors, and even poets that don’t care much about fonts, dropcaps and margins, were forced to using it. Not because it’s the best app for writing. Because the university, the editor in chief, the book publisher offers and expects the `.docx` format." #Markdown https://ia.net/topics/markdown-and-the-slow-fade-of-the-formatting-fetish

From #CTAN:

Vít Starý Novotný submitted an update to the markdown package.

Version: 3.11.1-0-gb7315ecf 2025-03-30
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Converting and rendering markdown documents inside TeX

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/markdown

Nextcloud:

Schon bemerkt? Seit der vorletzten Version werden Vorschau-Popups bei Links in Markdown-Dateien angezeigt (gilt auch für Links zu Materialien innerhalb der Nextcloud)

Package Manager for Markdown

I'm working on a project that is intended to encourage folk to make markdown text files which can be bundled together in different bundles of text files using a package manager.

Question for coders; Which package manager would you suggest I use?

Main criterias (in order) are:

1. Easy for someone with basic command line skills to edit the file and update version numbers and add additional packages.

2. All being equal, more commonly and easy to setup is preferred.

#Markdown #CommonMark #PackageManager #Programming #Dev
#NPM #RubyGems #Cargo #PickingAMastodonInstance
#Ruby #Python #Rust #Javascript #NodeJs #Lisp #CommonGuide

# #Pachli 2.11.0 is released

## New features include

- Support translation throughout the app
- Experimental Markdown support
- Content filters default to all contexts

## Fixes include:

- Toot button accessibility
- Grammar fixes
- Report UI updates
- Content filter updates
- Fewer crashes

## Updated translations

- Finnish, Indonesian, Irish, Latvian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Slovak, Spanish

More details at https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/03/31/2.11.0-release.html.

I took a stab at cleaning up my code for BearExporter, a Python script to export all of your Bear notes to Markdown files you can use with Obsidian, read in the terminal, or whatever.

As the old saying goes "it works for me!" but I know it's not exactly great code, but it is available.

I'm not great at Python but I'll try to improve it as time allows.

https://codeberg.org/raster/BearExporter

Llevo unos meses usando #Zed, y este editor de código desarrollado en #rustlang me ha encantado. Quiero contarles un poco más sobre el #ide, algunas características y extensiones (#python #markdown #sql #ortografía #just entre otros) que me han sido útiles en esta entrada de mi blog https://www.cosmoscalibur.com/es/blog/2025/zed-un-editor-rapido-y-moderno-de-codigo-abierto/

Mi chuleta de Markdown https://myblog.clonbg.es/mi-chuleta-de-markdown/ #Markdown https://clonbg.es

Una pregunta para usuarios con #discapacidadvisual please: ¿conocéis algún lector de textos que sepa interpretar el #Markdown correctamente? Es decir, que si escribo en **negrita** por ejemplo, lea la palabra (ya sea dándole más énfasis a la entonación, que molaría mucho, o de la forma normal), en vez de decir "asterisco asterisco negrita asterisco asterisco".

Muchas gracias de antemano.

Ich ertappe mich immer häufiger dabei, dass ich auch für umfangreichere Notizen und Ausführungen auf #Apple #Notes zurückgreife.

Die App ist mittlerweile richtig gut. Was ich jedoch bis heute schmerzlich vermisse, ist die Unterstützung von #Markdown.

Dafür würde ich Apple wirklich extrem feiern.

I wrote about my minimal setup for blogging and note taking. Wat do you think?