Markdeep Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Rewriting my blog in plain HTML

  I cheat with my site. I write the site in markdown in an html file. I then include the link for Markdeep (https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/) Page goes to user, markdeep does all the processing and I'm good to go. The minifed java script file is about 300kb, the size of an image. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Using static websites for tiny archives

  Lots of folks mentioning Markdown in the comments. +1 to that. Plain text FTW. Ever since WordPerfect I've preferred more deterministic, lightly-formatted documents with some way to see formatting characters directly. Markdown is brilliant, basically a DSL (domain-specific language) for HTML. The key to plain text is tooling! A couple Markdown tools I haven't seen mentioned here yet (even though they've come up on... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Docs as Code

  I've been working on a personal project for what I call "semiliterate programming" ;) because I think "Write a book about your code that happens to contain all of your code" is a bridge too far for nearly everyone. So, I'm trying to find the place between Doxygen and full-blown literate programming. Encouraging disjoint prose documentation rather than parameter-by-parameter docs or chapter-by-chapter docs. Doxygen... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Show HN: Scipress.io – a Markdown writing platform like Notion Medium MkDocs

  I like markdeep for documents, web stuff, etc. it has a rich set of mark methods. https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Ask HN: What is that "I didn't know I needed" tool/item until you saw it here

  It could be that I'm just one of the 10,000 some days (https://xkcd.com/1053/) but there has been a few times that I've seen an article on HN and went "Umm, I didn't know I needed that, but it fits into a niche use that I have." My last one was Markdeep in a discussion about markup languages. https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ Or Picotron (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39786984)... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file

  I didn't see anyone mention Markdeep [0] yet. I started with a notes.txt file for the system I maintain. I found myself gradually adopting Markdown syntax because I need bulleted lists and headings to separate different sections. I also needed hyperlinks to documentation or StackOverflow answers. So one day I just added the Markdeep tags to the bottom of the file and renamed it to notes.md.html I still keep it... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Show HN: Durdraw – a modern ANSI art editor for modern Unix terminals

  Don't discount #2 there. I still make and use ASCII art when commenting source code. Flow charts! ASCII art diagrams can be automatically rendered to an image, too: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Mathematical documents on ChromeOS?

  I started using MarkDown tools that support MathJax. As my preferred environment is as simple as possible I'm using Markdeep (https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/) and hammer and chisel (aka vi). Working well for me. Source: over 1 year ago

• My uses for vimwiki have dried up... and it makes me a little sad

  I never tried using vim wiki because I was already using markdeep for a similar purpose. I could write markdown from the comfort of vim, then get rendering in a browser basically for free. I have toyed with the idea of creating a custom version of the vim wiki plugin which creates .md.html pages with the markdeep script code in the appropriate place. Thus allowing for the best of both worlds: fast editing in vim... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem

  Since everyone's sharing their implementation of "slides, but written in Markdown", here's mine: https://github.com/doersino/markdeep-slides), it's just an HTML file (and a bit of JS/CSS). - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How do you take notes when reading pdf textbooks not in your field?

  > The only disadvantage is for drawings. I don't currently have a good way to capture those. How about Markdeep? https://casual-effects.com/markdeep. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• We Should Have Markdown Rendered Websites

  Mandatory mention to Markdeep: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Too much efficiency makes everything worse

  Yup, it's GitHub pages. It's just a private repo, so the world doesn't get to see my embarrassing edits and half written drafts. I would be happy to share a snapshot of the source code with you if you have a specific use for it though -- email me. I'm using the minima Jekyll theme. I also used Markdeep (https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/) rather than vanilla markdown to write the post. (Markdeep is awesome. It... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• We Should Have Markdown Rendered Websites

  So, https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ ? - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• We Should Have Markdown Rendered Websites

  Part of the benefit of Markdown is that you can view the raw source and still get useful info out of it. But this site prerendered the Markdown and served HTML which defeats part of the purpose. A better option would be to use something like https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ and serve the MD/HTML file. Then you can get a client-rendered HTML (https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html) or view the raw... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• hdoc — the modern documentation tool for C++ — has released version 1.3.1

  Support for Markdeep would be super awesome! Source: over 2 years ago

• Semi-Literate Programming

  But... With the goal of having more prose documentation mixed in with the source code, I wrote a tiny Python file watcher and HTTP server that scans your source dir and live-refreshes a web page whenever you save a file. In your source, you indicate Markdown comments with /*** your doc here */ and a quick regex turns the rest of the file in to bunch of ~~~ markdown code blocks ~~~ The markdown is then converted... Source: over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Markdown as Web Page/Site

  What about Markdeep? Astonished that none of the commenters here seem to know of its existence. See https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• ASCIIToSVG – Create beautiful SVG renderings of ASCII diagrams

  I find Markdeep[1] easier than this. [1] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

  Http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ has had ASCII-art-as-vector-image features for quite some time now. It's in need of a good editor, though. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Best practices for writing code comments

  I’ve been working on a tool to do this based on a simple Python file watcher, web server and https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ It just turns regular code into markdown code blocks and /** comment contents pass through to the markdown —> HTML pipeline. A little JS websocket and you get an auto-updating preview from any editor to any browser every time you ctrl-s. Not much time to work on it lately. But, I’ll... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago