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Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️<p>Announcing Microsoft.PowerShell.PlatyPS 1.0.0.</p><p><a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/announcing-platyps-100/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">devblogs.microsoft.com/powersh</span><span class="invisible">ell/announcing-platyps-100/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/powershell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powershell</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mslearn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mslearn</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/xml" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xml</span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p>Found one of the oldest <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> files among my notes, taken from a professional Continuing Education class. I think the little legend and heading system I came up with is funny looking back on it, as there's really obvious standard markdown headings and such I could've used, but I just didn't know them, yet. ;)</p><pre><code>$ ll Day\ 1.md -rw-r--r-- 1 ~~~ ~~~ 8,704 Jul 16 2019 Day 1.md $ head Day\ 1.md # ~~Redacted~~: Business Skills Legend ]]]page )))chapter [heading] ###0000 timestamp TEST: on the test ------------------- </code></pre>
pandoc<p>Create a local, reusable URL database by putting Markdown reference link definitions into a file, e.g.</p><p> [example]: <a href="https://example.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">example.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Make use of the database by passing the file to pandoc as an additional input. The reference links can then be used normally.</p><p> See this [example][].</p><p> As seen on [this page][example]...</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/pandoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pandoc</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a></p>
Álvaro R.<p>I'm joining the carnival! 🎪 🎡 🎢 🤹 🍭</p><p>"My decade with Org" is my post for the Emacs Carnival <br><a href="https://xenodium.com/writing-experience-my-decade-with-org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">xenodium.com/writing-experienc</span><span class="invisible">e-my-decade-with-org</span></a></p><p>Thank you <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.gregnewman.io/@greg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>greg</span></a></span> for hosting this month</p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/carnival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>carnival</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/org" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>org</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>orgmode</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/plaintext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plaintext</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/oss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oss</span></a></p>
SPdevALK 🐘️ ☑️<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kev</span></a></span> first step would probably be to convert your current notes and todo list to an ‘open’ and ‘portable’ data format. I prefer <a href="https://mas.to/tags/asciidoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>asciidoc</span></a> but <a href="https://mas.to/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> is the easier choice.</p><p>Search the web for ‘github onenote2markdown’ and use a tool you feel comfortable with (read the issues etc) to get everything converted. Then any editor that has a Preview feature for your chosen open format would be enough.</p><p>No more vendor lock-in, no more proprietary formats. Be free!</p>
scy<p>Sure, you can install a huge Vim plugin to help you format Markdown tables. Or, if you're like me and would like to keep your list of plugins short, and have <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Pandoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pandoc</span></a> installed anyway (because it rocks), you can simply do</p><p>setlocal formatprg=pandoc\ --from\ gfm\ --to\ gfm</p><p>in your ftplugin/markdown.vim, and then simply hit</p><p>gqip</p><p>("format interior of current paragraph") to reformat the messy table you're currently editing.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Vim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vim</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Neovim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Neovim</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a></p>
astrognocci<p><a href="https://www.rgaz.fr/blog/markypond-out-on-github/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rgaz.fr/blog/markypond-out-on-</span><span class="invisible">github/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lilypond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lilypond</span></a></p>
JP Mens<p>Apropos <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> &amp;c: pandoc is the conversion army knife for text. A wonderul utility.</p><p><a href="https://pandoc.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pandoc.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Challenge: print a legible copy of the SVG at (<a href="https://pandoc.org/diagram.svgz?v=20250517125450" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pandoc.org/diagram.svgz?v=2025</span><span class="invisible">0517125450</span></a>) on paper</p>
JP Mens<p>For me <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> has been a revelation. I've been using it for quite a number of years (probably close on 20 which is also roughly its age), and I greatly appreciate that so many projects have adopted it for text snippets, comments, and what have you.</p><p>I know reStructuredText is more capable, and I've written up a 700p book in LaTeX, but I'll stick to Markdown as much as I can.</p>
pvergain (kolektiva)<p>- <a href="https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">willmcgugan.github.io/announci</span><span class="invisible">ng-toad/</span></a> (2025-07-23, Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal, by <a href="https://willmcgugan.github.io/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">willmcgugan.github.io/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@willmcgugan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>willmcgugan</span></a></span>)</p><p>--&lt;--<br>I’m a little salty that neither Anthropic nor Google reached out to me before they released their terminal-based AI coding agents.</p><p>You see until recently I was the CEO of Textualize, a startup promoting rich applications for the terminal. Textualize didn’t make it as a company, but I take heart that we built something amazing. There is now a thriving community of folk building TUIs that I am still a part of.</p><p>So you will understand why when I finally got round to checking out Claude code and Gemini CLI, I was more interested in the terminal interface than the AI magic it was performing. And I was not impressed. Both projects suffer from jank and other glitches inherent to terminals that Textualize solved years ago.</p><p>....</p><p>I’m currently taking a year’s sabbatical. When Textualize wrapped up I genuinely thought I was sick of coding, and I would never gain be able to find joy in building things. I’m happy to be wrong about that. I still enjoy coding, and Toad feels like the perfect hobby project for my very particular set of skills. Something I can build while continuing to focus on my physical and mental health (running a startup is taxing).</p><p>So I am going to build it.</p><p>I am building it.</p><p>Here’s a quick video of Toad in its current state: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKsCS54xduo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=EKsCS54xdu</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p><p>What I have in mind is a universal front-end for AI in the terminal. This includes both AI chat-bots and agentic coding. The architecture I alluded to earlier is that the front-end built with Python and Textual connects to a back-end subprocess. The back-end handles the interactions with the LLM and performs any agentic coding, while the front-end provides the user interface. The two sides communicate with each other by sending and receiving JSON over stdout and stdin.</p><p>...</p><p>Toad isn’t quite ready for a public release. It remains a tadpole for now, incubating in a private repository. But you know I’m all about FOSS, and when its ready for a public beta I will release Toad under an Open Source license.</p><p>With a bit of luck, this sabbatical needn’t eat in to my retirement fund too much. If it goes well, it may even become my full-time gig.</p><p>I will shortly invite a few tech friends and collaborators to the project. These things can’t be the work of a single individual and I am going to need feedback as I work. If you would like to be a part of that, then feel free to reach out. But please note, I would like to prioritize folk in the Open Source community who have potentially related projects.</p><p>For everyone else, I will be posting updates regularly here and on my socials (link at the bottom of the page). Expect screenshots, videos, and long form articles. Please be patient—you will be agentic toading before too long.</p><p>Looking for markdown streaming? : <a href="https://willmcgugan.github.io/streaming-markdown/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">willmcgugan.github.io/streamin</span><span class="invisible">g-markdown/</span></a> (Efficient streaming of Markdown in the terminal) <br>--&gt;--</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CLI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Terminal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/textual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>textual</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WillMcGugan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WillMcGugan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toad</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a></p>
Will McGugan<p>I blogged about efficient streaming of Markdown in the terminal.</p><p>This was part of a different post, but it was a bit of a footnote. I think it deserves its own post.</p><p><a href="https://willmcgugan.github.io/streaming-markdown/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">willmcgugan.github.io/streamin</span><span class="invisible">g-markdown/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a></p>
Python Rennes<p>différents outils <a href="https://social.breizhcamp.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> d'extraction de contenus web :<br>- le classique <a href="https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup</span><span class="invisible">4/</span></a> qui reste très proche du <a href="https://social.breizhcamp.org/tags/DOM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOM</span></a> <a href="https://social.breizhcamp.org/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a><br>- <a href="https://pypi.org/project/trafilatura/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pypi.org/project/trafilatura/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> qui a une approche plutôt orientée attributs-valeurs. Voir l'article de Stéphane Robert : <a href="https://blog.stephane-robert.info/docs/developper/programmation/python/trafilatura/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.stephane-robert.info/docs</span><span class="invisible">/developper/programmation/python/trafilatura/</span></a><br>- <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/microsoft/markitdown</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> qui permet de convertir en <a href="https://social.breizhcamp.org/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> différents contenus<br>- <a href="https://github.com/matthewwithanm/python-markdownify" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/matthewwithanm/pyth</span><span class="invisible">on-markdownify</span></a> qui convertit du HTML en markdown</p>
silva rerum<p><strong>POW! #9 – edytor MD, zrzuty ekranu i okrągłe zdjęcia</strong></p><p>Zapraszam na kolejny zestaw aplikacji, które wpadły mi w oko.</p><p><a href="https://horodecki.net/2025/07/23/pow-9-edytor-md-zrzuty-ekranu-i-okragle-zdjecia/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">horodecki.net/2025/07/23/pow-9</span><span class="invisible">-edytor-md-zrzuty-ekranu-i-okragle-zdjecia/</span></a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://horodecki.net/tag/aplikacje/" target="_blank">#aplikacje</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://horodecki.net/tag/edytor/" target="_blank">#edytor</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://horodecki.net/tag/flatpak/" target="_blank">#flatpak</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://horodecki.net/tag/gtk4/" target="_blank">#gtk4</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://horodecki.net/tag/markdown/" target="_blank">#markdown</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://horodecki.net/tag/pow/" target="_blank">#pow</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://horodecki.net/tag/programy/" target="_blank">#programy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://horodecki.net/tag/scratchmark/" target="_blank">#Scratchmark</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://horodecki.net/tag/zrzutekranu/" target="_blank">#Zrzutekranu</a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@KekunPlazas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>KekunPlazas</span></a></span> +9001%</p><p>I find <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Gemini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gemini</span></a> to be <em>worse</em> than <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HTML5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HTML5</span></a> + <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CSS3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CSS3</span></a> or just bland <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a>...</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:Web hosting advice request
Florian Haas<p>Machine-translating Markdown using LibreTranslate: can someone share first-hand experience with this project from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@simonxix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>simonxix</span></a></span>, or would someone like to recommend another project I should be looking into?</p><p>(Boosts for reach appreciated!)</p><p><a href="https://github.com/SimonXIX/Markdown_translation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/SimonXIX/Markdown_t</span><span class="invisible">ranslation</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MachineTranslation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineTranslation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LibreTranslate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LibreTranslate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a></p>
sergio_101<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>teledyn</span></a></span> </p><p>Oh! So if I was able to post <a href="https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> on my client, there is no intermediary transform? For some reason, I thought something was going on behind the scenes.</p>
astrognocci<p><a href="https://www.rgaz.fr/blog/markdown-lilypond/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">rgaz.fr/blog/markdown-lilypond/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lilypond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lilypond</span></a></p>
sergio_101<p>I really wish social media allowed for the use of <a href="https://social.sixdegreesofohio.com/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> formatting of posts. It kinda drives me crazy to see posts (especially mine) with no formatting at all.</p>
Laurent 🦄<p>Alors, bonne nouvelle X2 : non seulement j'ai fini d'écrire ma communication pour le congrès de <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/papyrologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>papyrologie</span></a> de la semaine prochaine (il reste le diaporama, mais c'est pour demain matin), mais encore j'ai bien apprivoisé <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> et j'en suis très content. À un gros gros GROS détail près. J'utilise un super éditeur sur <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Huma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Huma</span></a>-Num, très bien fichue et tout, qui s'appelle <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Stylo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Stylo</span></a> et qui permet aisément tous les exports possibles, intègre les métadonnées et la bibliographie sous <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Zotero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zotero</span></a> tout ça. Sauf que...<br>⬇️</p>