I think, with the sheer volume of functionality available to us nowadays on the front-end, it can be easy to forget how powerful and strong the functionality is that we get right off shelf with HTML. Yes, you read that right, functionality.
Tim recently gave an excellent talk at FFConf. He mentioned this variation of Markdown, specifically for writing coding tutorials that update as you scroll. You can see it in action on his Generative Artistry site.
Kind of reminds of some of Bret Viktor’s work.
This is the dumbest publishing platform on the web.
Write something, hit publish, and it’s live.
Matt writes about the pleasure of independent publishing on the web today:
It feels transgressive to have a website in 2017. Something about having a domain name and about coding HTML which is against the grain now. It’s something big companies do, not small groups. We’re supposed to put our content on Facebook or Medium, or keep our publishing to an email newsletter. But a website?
But he points out a tension between the longevity that you get from hosting the canonical content yourself, and the lack of unified analytics when you syndicate that content elsewhere.
There’s no simple online tool that lets me add up how many people have read a particular story on Upsideclown via the website, the RSS feed, and the email newsletter. Why not? If I add syndication to Facebook, Google, and Apple, I’m even more at sea.
This looks like an interesting little Markdown editor. I think I’ll take it for a spin.
This is nice example of a web component that degrades gracefully—if custom elements aren’t supported, you still get the markdown content, just not converted to HTML.
<ah-markdown>
## Render some markdown!
</ah-markdown>
Markdown gets its own media type: text/markdown.
A truly wonderful piece by Mandy detailing why and how she writes, edits, and publishes on her own website:
No one owns this domain but me, and no one but me can take it down. I will not wake up one morning to discover that my service has been “sunsetted” and I have some days or weeks to export my data (if I have that at all). These URLs will never break.
This could be handy for the editing process in my home-grown blogging system: a PHP script to convert HTML back to Markdown.
A JavaScript port of John Gruber's excellent Markdown. I use Markdown for my blogging CMS so I may incorporate this into the GUI.