Welcome to The Lab.

I’ve made a couple of improvements to md-fixup, the opinionated Markdown formatting and linting tool I shared this week. The main additions are better emphasis handling and link conversion options. apex, formatting, linking, markdown, mdfixup, scripting

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I have some strong opinions about how Markdown should look. Liberal line breaks everywhere. ATX headers with exactly one space after the . Consistent list indentation using tabs. Tables that are properly aligned. And on and on. So I made Markdown Fixup (md-fixup). formatting, linter, markdown, scripting, tools

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One of the things I love about Howzit is how it bridges the gap between simple task lists and full automation. You can write quick (or complex) scripts right in your build notes and, with the latest updates, they can communicate back to Howzit in useful ways. The latest updates make this even easier with automatically-injected helper scripts and some powerful new directives. automation, features, howzit, logging, markdown, productivity, ruby, scripting

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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

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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

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Happy New Year! I spent some time this morning developing some features for Howzit that I think will be really useful (at least for me). automation, cli, developer, documentation, howzit, logging, markdown, productivity, ruby, scripting, terminal

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I’ve been busy improving Apex with some great new features and fixes. CSV tables, aria labels, and more. accessibility, apex, markdown, multimarkdown, plugin

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