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I’ve been developing a Fish function called tween. It’s a simple, flexible utility for extracting ranges of lines from files or STDIN input, and it’s flexible enough to handle just about any scenario you can throw at it, from numeric ranges, array style position/length ranges, or even string matching with regex capabilities. You can find…
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My two biggest projects over the last week have been Markdown Fixup and Apex. It seemed worthwhile to integrate the two in some useful way. A quick update on Markdown Fixup: I fixed the regex replacement engine to handle multi-line replacements. This is kind of a big deal if you’re trying to convert things like…
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I’ve updated my Markdown to Sendy script with the ability to use “sliced” images with separate links, the ability to upload assets to a CDN automatically, and a “test email” mode that will actually send a test email to you without going through Sendy. If you haven’t heard of mdtosendy before, it’s a Ruby script…
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When Apex reaches 1.0, I’m planning to include it in Marked 3. I realized that Marked has a lot of preprocessing features that were previously handled in Objective-C that would make sense to have in the core processor for both speed and accessibility from the command line. So I’ve added a bunch of new flags…
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I’ve been using my changelog script for years to generate release notes from git commit messages. It’s saved me countless hours and helped me maintain complete, informative changelogs across all my projects. I wrote changelog in 2017 and mentioned it back in 2024. I’ve used it for every project I’ve worked on since then, and…
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BBEdit has a cool feature called Text Factories for automating repetitive text transformations. When Younghart mentioned it on the forum, it got me thinking. While I can’t replicate the full power of Text Factories (which can chain multiple transformations, with all of BBEdit’s power), I could at least add a flexible regex search-and-replace system to…
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I think a lot of people using Apex are going to want syntax highlighting of code blocks. Including a script like Highlight.js in your HTML output is fine, but I wanted Apex to be able to directly output HTML with the necessary spans and tables for highlighting. So, introducing the –code-highlight flag. How It Works…
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I’ve been working on a few updates to my Markdown to Sendy script that add some nice quality-of-life improvements for creating email campaigns. The main additions are support for greeting/salutation customization and a new button liquid tag that makes it easier to create styled call-to-action buttons. Greetings and Salutations The script now supports customizable greetings…
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{{ site.webexcsponsor.affiliate5.start }} moss://xmunch.com Right in line with what I was thinking with my Markdown Web brainstorming. A protocol for content distribution that requires Markdown — portable, secure, and durable. NSHipster/sosumi.ai: Making Apple docs AI-readable A web app and MCP server for converting Apple API docs into AI-compatible formats. Another way to save on tokens…
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Tables in Markdown have always been a bit of a mess. Every processor handles them slightly differently, and when you start wanting advanced features like column spans or captions, you’re usually out of luck. I’ve been working on Apex, my unified Markdown processor, and I’m happy to say that tables are now pretty solid. The…