#introduction Hey everyone~ I'm Sam, I write code for a living. Started when I was 11, self taught, and never stopped learning or working since! I'm 28 now, and wow does that feels weird to say.
Been trying out different #fediverse things ever since the #birdsite went up in 🔥s. Trying to find a new home online, and thought this place looked rather interesting.
I love to play #games, so a big #gamer. I #stream sometimes, but a tad #shy so trying to get over that. Actually do #gamedev as a hobby. If I find something interesting enough, I usually start contributing towards it...so never sure what I'll be up to next.
Hopefully this place becomes my new home. Thanks for reading and maybe following if I'm interesting enough for ya~
Gotta say, first impressions of #calckey are pretty good. Love the length of posts, and how I can mark them up. I'm a #markdown fanboy so yay. Hit me up & let's chat about something fun, woo~
Import your Mastodon content/posts into your new Calckey account.
Customisable notification sounds
You can add more than 4 links in your profile.
Quote-replies! And if it's done and viewed within Calckey, the quote-reply is displayed within the original thread, too! Great way to keep context!
Better polls
You can attach more than 4 images (but only the first 4 will appear in mainline Mastodon, that is a well-known limitation of mainline Mastodon for years).
I'm writing a longer (as it seems) article on the lock-in effect of solutions like #Obsidian that are using open formats like #Markdown for storage. The file format is not the only thing that might lock you in.
I did already start with a list of arguments but also want to collect your ideas so that I don't forget a good argument.
Please, no emotions, just facts and objective arguments.
Reply here in this thread and I'll collect ideas from it. 🙇
#TIL: Github-flavoured Markdown supports alt text for images.
Whereas the usual syntax for pictures on Github is , it accepts an alt text in quotation marks after the path: .
I've never much cared for #wordpress. I'll admit it's purely from early experiences with it, and a year of my life spent on a contract attempting to secure an instance (which was hampered more by ridiculous requirements than wp itself).
That said, I'm seriously considering going from static #jekyll generation to wordpress, purely for the #ActivityPub implementation.
Are there other good ActivityPub-aware #blog platforms? Preferably with #markdown flavored editing.
I finished the first version of my tiny #blog engine ❤️
It only requires a FTP access to a server that supports PHP (should be easy in 2023).
It uses #markdown for all the posts & pages and support light & dark modes, and it's totally responsive. It also supports RSS2 & Webmentions out of the box :shibalaugh:
Markdown is popular with a lot of applications. As a format for writing documents, I've always hated one thing: adding figures & images means either managing a separate file (fragile & requires time and effort to manage) or using an inline base64-encoded blob (not supported by most editors).
TextBundle seems like a great solution to this problem: package your .md file and dependencies in a ZIP archive. I wish more applications would support it.
They're working on a DB version in parallel that will provide better scalability, performance and realtime #collaboration (#RTC). They'll charge for RTC.
Unfortunately, this seems to be the end for #orgdown markup as they are implementing #Markdown only now and a conversion feature later on. 😞
Therefore, logseq is not an option for me any more and I'll need to think about a migration strategy for my wife.
Great news for plain text interoperability: GitHub has added support for callouts to the GitHub-flavored #markdown using the same syntax @obsidian introduced in Obsidian v0.14 (March 2022)
Is there interest in a #foss static #forum software? Yes, you heard that right.
Thinking about creating a system for basically periodically scanning the inbox of a mail account, creating a #markdown draft which then can get approved or rejected by simply moving it to the appropiate folder. A #cronjob is then picking it up and compiling the forum page again.
This would work with mailto links, so any email editor is already the writing tool.
🆕 blog! “WordPress GeSHi Highlighting for Markdown”
I've launched a WordPress Plugin for an extremely niche use-case. WP GeSHi Highlight Redux works with WordPress's Classic Editor to convert Markdown to syntax highlighted code. That allows me to write: php $a = "Hello"; $b = 5 * 2; echo $a . str($b); And have it displayed as: $a = "Hello"; $b = […]
I'm investigating options that are available to create a table of contents in #markdown, really wondering what people are using to create that when writing markdown based docs.