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…
It’s time for my yearly roundup of my favorite tools, hardware, and projects. I’m combining everything in one post this year. You might find something new, or you might just have your own preferences validated. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments! It’s been an interesting year. I lost my job in…
I’m thrilled to announce a public β for Marked 3. I’m 🙏 this will be a short 🏃 and it will make it to public 🚀 before my unemployment benefits 👻. So if you’re interested in helping me squash some 🪲, please come 🥳! Once I have some assurance that it’s not all horribly broken,…
I’ve added so much new stuff to my universal Markdown processor, Apex, that it’s hard to count. It’s developing quickly! In case you missed the announcement, Apex is my latest project — a command line tool and C library that combines the best of various Markdown tools, supporting syntax from CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown, MultiMarkdown,…
This is currently a work in progress, but I have a 0.1.0 release of a “One Ring To Rule Them All” Markdown processor published. The goal of Apex is to make it possible to write in any Markdown processor’s syntax, be it Kramdown (with IALs), MultiMarkdown (with v6 extensions), CommonMark (with GFM extensions), or any…
First off, Marked 2 is part of the Unclutter Black Friday bundle, along with 11 other excellent Mac apps. You can get the full bundle for 77% off, or individual apps (like Marked 2) for 50% off. You should definitely check that out. I’ve gathered a few other deals you may or may not have…
Since leaving Oracle I’ve been hard at work on Marked 3, and holy cow it’s a huge update. I expect to have the beta out in the next week or two. When it’s ready it will be available as a subscription directly via Paddle or the Mac App Store, and all Setapp users will get…
I finally got a significant Marked update out. ==highlight== rendering, and a BYO JavaScript setup I think (some) users will like. First, I don’t know why it’s become so popular, but I’ve received a lot of requests for ==highlight== rendering. So I’ve added it as an option. I also added ~~deletion~~ rendering, and ~underline~ as…
Personal Projects: Not my busiest year on record, but I did a lot. Updated: Generate slick changelogs from Git commits I do all of my release notes using careful git commit messages. It makes life so easy. SearchLink I still consider SearchLink – out of a hundred projects – the most useful thing I’ve made,…
Three years ago this month, Luc Beaudoin, the creator of Hookmark, published the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking. The idea was to bring together developers in all categories and promote “Ubiquitous Linking” in Mac software, a concept that improves cognitive flow and productivity. I was one of the original signatories, but since then plenty have joined…