#Development #Launches
Backup Buddy · Turn your whole website into timeless Markdown https://ilo.im/168zt7

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#Backup #Markup #Content #Website #CLI #WebDev #Frontend #HTML

#Markup languages, from IBM's GML on down the line, including \(\TeX\), TeXinfo, Scribe, SGML, HTML, XML (thank you Jon @bosak🙏), XHTML, Markdown, and their many descendants, have influenced modern #computing in innumerable ways. And their impact will continue far into the future, long after I am gone.

But, from my admittedly-limited perspective, too few #software implementers have exploited the simplicity and the homoiconicity of the #LISP syntax—that much derided and reviled "lost-in-stupid-parentheses" abstract syntax representation that kickstarted it all.

Back in the 1980s, we used to incorporate into enterprise systems the DSLs implemented using baked-in Scheme interpreters. Indeed, GIMP did just that, until they caved in and replaced their Scheme scripting engine with a Python one.

Outdated as I may appear, I remain staunchly in favour of LISP/Scheme scripting DSL in large #software systems.

So working on updating my resumé and I know this makes me a weirdo but I really like using Asciidoctor for this type of thing. Spits out some really clean looking PDFs if you know what you're doing. Highly recommend if you, like me, don't want to use Office and/or are a typography snob.

#documentation #markup #typophile

There is a blizzard of online PDF highlighter tools. SmallPDF is limited to a a number of downloads, for example.
What is a useful and free highlighter in Windows 10?
#pdf #highlight #tool #app #markup #annotate #annotation #text #music

@torb Da har jeg endelig tatt meg bry og tid til å publisere det gamle arkivet jeg hadde liggende av “Kast deg ut i tilgjengelighet”:

https://kastdegutitilgjengelighet.no/

Jeg har foreløpig kun gjort overfladiske, enkle endringer fra originalen. Det er mye som kan forbedres og oppdateres for å gjøre innholdet mer relevant, så bidrag mottas med takk. Kildekoden befinner seg her:

https://github.com/asbjornu/kastdegutitilgjengelighet.no

#NorskTut #norsk #tilgjengelighet #accessibility #WCAG #HTML #kode #programmering #programming #code #markup #semantic #semantikk

This looks like an incredible deal, but why doesn't it come with the ePub format? I know Pearson usually offers ePubs via InformIT.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/software-architecture-pearson-books

#ebooks #epub #pdf #reflowable_text #accessibility #interoperability #markup #software #architecture #books #deals

@ngate
Ooh, it uses 'grad' for nabla instead of 'nabla' for grad. Eek.
#maths #AsciiMath #MarkUp

🚀🥱 "AsciiMath: The revolutionary way to overcomplicate simple #math with yet another #markup language. Because what the world really needed was more #JavaScript to render basic equations. 🙄🔢"
https://asciimath.org/ #AsciiMath #Overcomplication #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

Typst 0.14 released
https://typst.app/blog/2025/typst-0.14/

#typst #markup #typesetting

@ericsfraga @oantolin Yes, the direct and initial benefits of #Orgdown are mostly for non-Emacs people: https://karl-voit.at/2021/11/27/orgdown/

However, just imagine for a minute, that all #Markdown usage is replaced with Orgdown usage. Let your thoughts wander for a moment.

This would have tremendous impact on the #Emacs people as well when it comes to working with external tools and people.

#PIM #LML #indirectprofitability #markup #publicvoit #orgmode

Google Gemini ottimizza editing e analisi delle immagini
#AI #Analisi #FotoEditing #Gemini #GeminiAI #Google #GoogleGemini #IntelligenzaArtificiale #Markup #NanoBanana #Novità #TechNews #Tecnologia

https://www.ceotech.it/google-gemini-ottimizza-editing-e-analisi-delle-immagini/

A very special "hello" to the folks who came up with HTML `title` attribute. An even more special "hello" to those who decided that an anchor's tooltip will be marked up as its "title".

🙄

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/title

#technology #design #webdev #html ##markup #sarcasm

🚀 Welcome to the infinite loop of humanity inventing Yet Another #Markup Language (YAML) with a fresh coat of paint. Behold, MAML: JSON's hipster cousin born in 2025, promising multiline strings and optional commas to solve problems nobody had! 🤡 Because obviously, we needed another "minimal" and "readable" format in the tech world's overflowing buffet of line noise. 🍜
https://maml.dev/ #YAML #MAML #JSON #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Deml: The Directed Acyclic Graph Elevation Markup Language

https://github.com/Mcmartelle/deml

#HackerNews #Deml #DAG #Elevation #Markup #Language #Graph #Technology #OpenSource

🤡 Oh, look! Another "LaTeX killer" promises to solve all your #typesetting woes by being eerily similar, yet somehow revolutionary. 🚀 Apparently, #Typst is here to save us from the horrors of complex #markup with its magical simplicity—until you realize you're just swapping one set of headaches for another. 😂
https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/ #LaTeX #killer #simplicity #revolution #HackerNews #ngated

A #Fediverse tech idea I've been considering for a while.

Hashtags can sometimes be annoying, right? Their primary application is finding posts related to a certain topic, including following one. Therefore, if I look for "horses", I want to find everything horse-related.

The following hashtags should therefore lead to the same set of posts:
- #horse
- #horses
- #equines
- #equine
- #horsetodon

Right? But that's not a reality. Some people tag with one of them, with multiple, or with none at all.

Similarly, #Döner, #Doener and perhaps even #Doner should lead to the same set of posts, right? And what about British-American-splits like how #Localization is #Localisation, and perhaps even #l10n as well? And #LGBT, #LGBTQ, #LBGTQ+, #LGBT+, #LGBTQIA and so on and so on also really should be one hashtag.

So what to do?

I propose:
We should introduce a second symbol for something like "fuzzy hashtags". Not the '#' symbol, but another; perhaps '&' or '~'.

That way I could tag my post '~horse', and it could appear on all hashtag feeds concerning the different spellings of horses! Or I could search for such a fuzzy hashtag.

The different variants could be crowdsourced, or overridden by instance mods. You could also opt-out of that system - your posts showing up in fuzzy searches, most likely.

This would also fix languages like German, where you have many inflected forms: #Männer #Mann #Mannes #Manns #Männern #Männers and so on should all lead to the same result.

Behold what I have to do to sign off on this post:
#MarkupLanguages #MarkupLanguage #Markup

Shout out to pandoc 3.8
https://pandoc.org/
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/tag/3.8

#pandoc #markup #typst

If you like #markup languages and related technologies, we have a Discord server where you'd be extremely welcome.

We discuss development of markup technologies, teaching and learning, theoretical stuff, and general tech. We'd love to see you, whether your interest is in #XML, #DigitalHumanities, #LaTeX, #JSON, #Markdown... We should use our collective experience to improve each of our technologies.

(I also just love chatting with other markup geeks!)

If you'd like a server invite, lmk.

I am bad at writing Hyper #Text using the Hypertext #Markup #Language.

#HTML

• #Inflation is increase in prices of goods and services.
• Inflation is not triggered by “too much money chasing too few goods.” Public spending and bank credits create money, which in turn may increase demand, but only gradually and indirectly.
• Wars, pandemics, droughts, etc. can slash the availability of key goods. Such threats permit big providers to demand ever increasing prices.

Think scarcity of strategic #commodities like IT or wheat. 🧵

#pricing #prices #markup #macroEconomics #MMT