Many of my recent posts have focused on how I’ve increasingly turned to Markdown for my writing, syllabus design, project and class websites, and for teaching literate programming. For those ...

There’s a simple idea about productivity and writing: almost anything you need to do, you can do in a plain text file. By a plain text file, I mean a .txt file that contains nothing but text without ...

Markdown is a Perl script that converts plain text into Web-ready HTML; it’s also a shorthand syntax for writing HTML tags without needing to write the actual HTML. Markdown has been around for a ...

' Markwhen ' is a system that allows you to create schedules using a markdown-like syntax and display them in timeline or calendar format. In general calendar apps, you have to click buttons one by ...

R Markdown is one of my favorite things about modern R. It offers an easy way to combine text, R code, and the results of R code in a single document. And when that document is rendered as HTML, you ...

MarkdownPad Pro is excellent, but you should try the free options before paying for it. HTML is the lingua franca of the Web. If you publish anything online, that’s the format your text will end up in ...