I’ve been working on making Apex (my ultimate Markdown processor) easier to integrate into Xcode projects, and I’m excited to share what’s new. The biggest change is full Swift Package Manager (SPM) support, which makes adding Apex to your project as simple as clicking a button in Xcode.
apex, developer, ios, macos, markdown, objective-c, swift, xcode
I often come up with ideas in the hazy half-dream state before I wake up. Recently I was thinking about exactly how shitty the web has become. And also about how much I love plain text formats like Markdown. So what about a Markdown Web?
brainstorming, markdown, webdev
Apex has always supported Kramdown-style IAL (Inline Attribute Lists), but I’ve been steadily adding more Pandoc compatibility. The latest release brings several new features that make Apex work better with Pandoc-style markdown while maintaining backward compatibility.
apex, features, linking, markdown, pandoc
I’ve been working a bit more on mdtosendy, my Ruby script for converting Markdown to email-ready HTML, and recently added a multi-template system that makes it much more flexible for managing different email designs.
design, email, html, markdown, mdtosendy, ruby, scripting
I’m excited to share that Apex version 0.1.41 has comprehensive support for Inline Attribute Lists (IALs), including inline IALs for span-level elements, key-value pairs, and Attribute List Definitions (ALDs). This brings Apex’s IAL support to full feature parity with Kramdown.
apex, html, markdown
I’m thrilled to announce a public β for Marked 3. I’m 🙏 this will be a short 🏃 and it will make it to public 🚀 before my unemployment benefits 👻. So if you’re interested in helping me squash some 🪲, please come 🥳!
beta, marked
I’m sure some mailing list services handle Markdown to HTML conversion, but I use Sendy, and it doesn’t. It doesn’t really even have a decent WYSIWYG editor. I wanted to create good-looking emails while just writing in Markdown, like I do everywhere else.
apex, email, html, markdown, mdtosendy, scripting, webdesign, writing
Merry Christmas! I’m all alone for the most part today (I’m ok with it), so working on a few different projects. Here’s my 4am accomplishment, such that it is.
css, javascript, offwhite, webdesign
I’ve updated the Homebrew formula for Gather to use binaries instead of requiring Swift to compile. This will make it much, much easier for most users to install it using Homebrew.
cli, gather, homebrew, markdown, terminal, zsh
Apex was designed to make using existing Markdown syntax from a range of tools (CommonMark, GFM, MultiMarkdown, Kramdown, mmark) easier — not to add a bunch of new or special syntax. Plugins allow you to add your own syntax and even entirely new tools to markdown generation, keeping the core focused while giving you the flexibility to extend it however you need.
apex, markdown
