Your repo should be the source of truth, not the platform
Here is a principle I keep coming back to: the canonical version of everything I write should live in a git repo I control, in plain markdown, not loc…
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Why I Created Moji to Open Markdown Files Like PDFs
Moji was born from a simple need: to open a Markdown file with the same convenience as opening a PDF. Double-click the file, view the fully formatted …
Why I built a mind-mapping tool where Markdown is the actual file format
Most mind-mapping tools treat Markdown as an export option — something you get out at the end, one-way. I wanted the opposite: I wanted my mind map to…
Markdown to HTML: The Fastest Way to Convert Markdown Online
Markdown to HTML: The Fastest Way to Convert Markdown Online Markdown is one of the easiest ways to write documentation, blog posts, README files, and…
Stop retyping your API. Turn cURL into docs instantly.
Here's an absurd thing I did for years. I'd test an endpoint with a cURL command. It worked. Then, to document it, I'd open a Markdown file and retype…
5 Markdown Tricks That Make Your README Stand Out
I've reviewed hundreds of GitHub READMEs while contributing to open source, and the difference between a forgettable one and one that makes people sto…
# Introducing MDConvertHub: Free Browser-Based Markdown Tools for Developers
Introducing MDConvertHub: Free Browser-Based Markdown Tools for Developers Markdown has become the standard for writing README files, project document…
Parsing markdown tables in 20 lines (because remark was overkill)
On Hacé Cuentas (hacecuentas.com) I render 1,200+ pages of user-facing explanation text from JSON content. Every page has at least one markdown table …
How to Fix Messy Markdown from Notion or Obsidian
If you’ve ever exported from Notion or Obsidian, you know the pain: extra whitespace everywhere, empty links, inconsistent heading styles, and stray H…
Mermaid Diagrams Quickstart and Cheatsheet for Developers
Mermaid is a text-based diagramming tool for people who would rather write diagrams than drag boxes around a canvas. It uses a Markdown-like syntax to…
Your docs have dead links. I built a zero-dependency CLI that catches the local ones — no network
You rename a file, restructure a folder, tweak a heading — and quietly leave a trail of dead links across your README and docs. Nobody notices until a…
Google's Open Knowledge Format is just Markdown in folders (and that's the point)
Last week Google Cloud published the Open Knowledge Format (OKF). It is a way to write down what a team knows so that AI agents can read it. Strip the…
One Markdown File, Two Worlds: How to Build Docs for Both Humans and AI Assistants
When building a modern SaaS product with an AI assistant ("Ask our docs"), you quickly hit a brutal realization about documentation design: Humans wan…
Query Markdown as a Database with mq-db: SQL, mq, and Interval Indexes
Managing large collections of Markdown documents (documentation sites, knowledge bases, notes) often means resorting to a messy combination of grep an…
I Built a Service That Actually Converts PDFs to Markdown Correctly
Have you ever copy-pasted from a PDF only to get mangled line breaks, tables collapsed into a single line, formulas turned into gibberish, and figure …
I Built MDL: A Small Language for Writing Static Websites as Readable Outlines
HTML is an excellent output format. As an authoring format, though, it can become noisy when you're building simple documentation sites, landing pages…
Try the Tech Radar #2 — Markdown Typst Converter (Typst's Syntax Is Closer to Markdown Than LaTeX)
Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol 34 put Typst in the Trial ring. It's the modern typesetting language people are jumping to from LaTeX, partly becaus…
Notes + Local AI: Simpler Than You Think
I got caught flat-footed twice by the same customer. I have an office hours call with them almost every week. For a couple of weeks in a row they aske…
I Built a Local-First VS Code Notes Extension with GitHub Sync
Most note-taking tools feel disconnected from actual development workflow. I constantly ended up with: debugging notes in random files temporary snipp…
How I stopped my README.md and README.zh.md from drifting apart
The drift problem Every project that ships a translated README has the same lifecycle: Someone writes README.md in English. A contributor opens a PR w…