Remember Typed? Well, the crowd-funded blogging platform from RealMac in Brighton is now up and running in Beta for its backers – and I’ve posted some initial thoughts on it over on my blog there.…
markdown
A collection of 7 posts
A Ghostly guide to writing in Markdown
One of the single best investments of time I’ve made in recent years was learning Markdown. This sums up why: Once you get the hang of Markdown, it’s an incredibly powerful writing tool which will allow you to…
Markdown versus CommonMark: the ambiguity and clarity dilemma
The “standard Markdown” controversy seems to be over and done. I was essentially offline for the weekend, and I came back to find that what was “Standard Markdown” has now become “CommonMark“, respecting Markdown co-creator creator John Gruber’s wishes…
Writers, Coders and the Markdown landgrab
If Standard Markdown (now CommonMark) wants to replace Markdown, it needs to acknowledge that it's not just a markup standard for coders.
A Markdown link selection
This is really handy to know: If you are publishing to a blog system that does not recognize Markdown, and you can’t for example install a custom WordPress plugin to facilitate such recognition, you will need to see that…
10 days of #back2blog-ing. How did it go?
Yesterday marked the 10th and final day of the latest #back2blog challenge. The idea was to post every day at least once for 10 days. My hope was that it would kickstart my blogging. How did it go? Well, as…
Make mine Markdown
Here’s the bonus element I’m bringing to my participation in the Back to Blogging challenge. As well as posting once a day, I’m going to be writing all my posts in Markdown – a markup language conceived by…