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.…
Blog platform Typed enters backer beta
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…