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I’ve made a couple of improvements to md-fixup, the opinionated Markdown formatting and linting tool I shared this week. The main additions are better emphasis handling and link conversion options. Emphasis Handling By default, md-fixup normalizes bold markers to __ (double underscore) and italic markers to * (single asterisk). So **bold** becomes __bold__ and _italic_…
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{{ site.webexcsponsor.affiliate4.start }} A Collection of Cursor custom slash commands A collection of custom slash commands for Cursor. All potentially useful, with some exhaustive examples. zcaceres/markdownify-mcp: A Model Context Protocol server for converting almost anything to Markdown A Model Context Protocol server for converting almost anything to Markdown. It can do YouTube videos to Markdown,…
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I have some strong opinions about how Markdown should look. Liberal line breaks everywhere. ATX headers with exactly one space after the #. Consistent list indentation using tabs. Tables that are properly aligned. And on and on. So I made Markdown Fixup (md-fixup). Building My Own Tool I just wanted a tool to fix my…
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One of the things I love about Howzit is how it bridges the gap between simple task lists and full automation. You can write quick (or complex) scripts right in your build notes and, with the latest updates, they can communicate back to Howzit in useful ways. The latest updates make this even easier with…
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I’ve been working on making Apex (my ultimate Markdown processor) easier to integrate into Xcode projects, and I’m excited to share what’s new. The biggest change is full Swift Package Manager (SPM) support, which makes adding Apex to your project as simple as clicking a button in Xcode. While Apex is still in a 0.x…
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I often come up with ideas in the hazy half-dream state before I wake up. Recently I was thinking about exactly how shitty the web has become. And also about how much I love plain text formats like Markdown. So what about a Markdown Web? The idea is harkening back to the dawn of the…
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Apex has always supported Kramdown-style IAL (Inline Attribute Lists), but I’ve been steadily adding more Pandoc compatibility. The latest release brings several new features that make Apex work better with Pandoc-style markdown while maintaining backward compatibility. Thanks to somelinguist for the suggestions! Table Captions Get More Flexible Table captions now support three different formats. You…
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Happy New Year! I spent some time this morning developing some features for Howzit that I think will be really useful (at least for me). Howzit is my tool for documenting my project structure/build/deploy/CI methods and instructions, with the ability to execute code from the Markdown documentation. I use it in every project I create,…
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I’ve been working a bit more on mdtosendy, my Ruby script for converting Markdown to email-ready HTML, and recently added a multi-template system that makes it much more flexible for managing different email designs. To read more about the inspiration and initial development of mdtosendy, see the blog post I wrote a couple of days…
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I’m excited to share that Apex version 0.1.41 has comprehensive support for Inline Attribute Lists (IALs), including inline IALs for span-level elements, key-value pairs, and Attribute List Definitions (ALDs). This brings Apex’s IAL support to full feature parity with Kramdown. In case you haven’t been keeping up, Apex is my universal Markdown processor project. The…