Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish(ia.net) Year after year, document formats like .docx, .ppt, and pdf lose a little bit of steam. You might not have noticed… But Markdown is growing over and into the old formats, slowly, and nicely, like moss on a stranded star destroyer. Notes on a revolution in slow motion.
Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish(ia.net) You might not have noticed, but year after year, document formats like .docx, .ppt, and pdf lose a little bit of steam. Markdown is growing over and into the old formats, slowly, and nicely, like moss on a stranded star destroyer. Notes on a revolution in slow motion.
Presenterm: Markdown Slideshows in the Terminal(github.com/mfontanini) presenterm lets you create presentations in markdown format and run them from your terminal, with support for image and animated gifs, highly customizable themes, code highlighting, exporting presentations into PDF format, and plenty of other features.
Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc(git-tower.com) We’ve all been there: a single README.md file was enough in the early days of your project. But as new features and contributors rolled in, maintaining that lightweight Markdown file started feeling like juggling knives.
The Modern Document Processing Stack(github.com/marcelmarais) This is a production-ready document conversion and processing engine (and primarily a wrapper of other tools). It uses open-source libraries to convert common file formats (PDF, DOCX, etc.) and web content to Markdown—a format that is friendly for LLMs and embedding models.
Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs(imaginarytext.ca) I recently responded to someone on Mastodon who asked about producing decent-looking PDFs from markdown. I replied eagerly with “OMG Typst!” and linked to my earlier blogpost about developing an entire book layout template for Pandoc and Typst. The response I then received was this was “far beyond” what they need – and on reflection I had to admit that my blog post was a bit, well, niche.
Save the Web – Obsidian(obsidian.md) Today, we’re introducing Obsidian Web Clipper a new extension that helps you highlight and capture the web in your favorite browser. Anything you save is stored as durable Markdown files that you can read offline, and preserve for the long term.