"As hard as it may be to believe, back in 2004, the default was that people made new standards for open technologies like #Markdown, and just shared them freely for the good of the internet, and the world, and then went on about their lives."

Great article by @anildash about a simple yet powerful standard that rules the IT world, and the fantastic cultural environment where it was born. ♥️

How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
https://anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/

"As hard as it may be to believe, back in 2004, the default was that people made new standards for open technologies like #Markdown, and just shared them freely for the good of the internet, and the world, and then went on about their lives."

Great article by @anildash about a simple yet powerful standard that rules the IT world, and the fantastic cultural environment where it was born. ♥️

How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
https://anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/

#SelfHosting week 5. Or 6. Whatever, who cares.
My content editor and I are focusing on a particularly delicate maintenance: exporting our WordPress old posts (4 years of blogging!) into MarkDown, in order to create a kind of "static" PlusBrothers time-machine with our arcHIVed stories (no, I'm not mad, capital letters are this way for a reason) 🦠☣️

Real world posts will be re-uploaded, but positive (poz) world fiction is going to change, be better organized. We noticed we missed many plots. Now my co-worker @gifter has a specific task: print every story if he wants to. And check plots. Or simply have them on his huge screen.
Damn, I'm longing to have a Braille DOTPAD in hand! #WordPress #writing #markdown

#LibreOffice dans sa nouvelle version 26.2 est désormais compatible avec #Markdown (et c’est une révolution discrète).

Vous pouvez désormais :
– Importer un fichier Markdown directement dans Writer avec votre template ODT ou DOCX préféré,
– Copier-coller du Markdown depuis n’importe quelle source et le voir converti proprement,
–Exporter un document Writer en Markdown pour le publier sur un site statique, un wiki, ou un repo GitHub

C'est parfait.

https://goodtech.info/libreoffice-26-2-markdown-support-revolution/

#LibreOffice dans sa nouvelle version 26.2 est désormais compatible avec #Markdown (et c’est une révolution discrète).

Vous pouvez désormais :
– Importer un fichier Markdown directement dans Writer avec votre template ODT ou DOCX préféré,
– Copier-coller du Markdown depuis n’importe quelle source et le voir converti proprement,
–Exporter un document Writer en Markdown pour le publier sur un site statique, un wiki, ou un repo GitHub

C'est parfait.

https://goodtech.info/libreoffice-26-2-markdown-support-revolution/

@geeeero @stefanmuelller Oder #Markdown + @pandoc. @typst hat auch noch den Vorteil, dass es zum einen eine klassische offline Lösung (Open Source) anbietet, aber auch gleich einen Web-Dienst (free + Bezahloption) anbietet, der ohne Installation einfach und kollaborativ genutzt werden kann (ähnlich wir z.B. overleaf für LaTeX). Damit kann man Leute gut an solche Alternativen heranführen.

#LibreOffice 26.2: Better #Excel Compatibility & #Markdown Support
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/libreoffice-26-2-new-features

#newrelease

#LibreOffice 26.2: Better #Excel Compatibility & #Markdown Support
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/libreoffice-26-2-new-features

#newrelease

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/116012105461495535

The new #LibreOffice version looks interesting (curious to try out the #Markdown implementation). But oh my, I feel like release notes writing is a very mixed bag in Open Source projects.

@david_chisnall @ChrisMayLA6 Is this #OpenSource ? Is there public documentation somewhere from which an open source implementation could be built?

I'm a *huge* fan of #Markdown as a way of enabling non-geeks to write good web pages, and good, clearly thought out, well designed extensions to it can only be a good thing.

There is a type of person who is attracted to the gemini-protocol and gemtext because they wanted a Web that was based on Markdown instead of HTML.

And the gemini-protocol + gemtext seemed close to that.

...

Not everyone who is attracted to gemini-protocol or gemtext is this type of person.

But I've talked to enough of these types of people that I know they are definitely out there.

#gemini #geminiProtocol #gemtext #markdown #smallnet #smallweb #smolnet #smallweb

Deckless: genera #presentazioni da #Markdown in un minuto
@diggita

https://webappsmagazine.blogspot.com/2026/01/deckless-genera-presentazioni-da.html

New #blog post! Being a perfectly consistent human being, I went from preaching my own (Pidgin #HTML) format fixing errors of #Markdown, to... enumerating Markdown errors in a later post. Behold: Against Markdown!

https://aartaka.me/markdown.html

1/3
La communauté libriste/geek/nerd et pas que, dont moi, comprend bien l'intérêt de #Markdown pour prendre des notes ou faire du web, mais c'est, à mon avis, surtout son utilisation dans le processus d'écriture, pour remplacer les (mauvais-)traitements de texte, pour reprendre le contrôle du processus de rédaction, que la simplicité de Markdown acquiert tout son sens.

#pandoc #rédaction #université #formation #libre #durable

New #blog post! Being a perfectly consistent human being, I went from preaching my own (Pidgin #HTML) format fixing errors of #Markdown, to... enumerating Markdown errors in a later post. Behold: Against Markdown!

https://aartaka.me/markdown.html

1/3
La communauté libriste/geek/nerd et pas que, dont moi, comprend bien l'intérêt de #Markdown pour prendre des notes ou faire du web, mais c'est, à mon avis, surtout son utilisation dans le processus d'écriture, pour remplacer les (mauvais-)traitements de texte, pour reprendre le contrôle du processus de rédaction, que la simplicité de Markdown acquiert tout son sens.

#pandoc #rédaction #université #formation #libre #durable

Anyone want to have a peek at my new #blogpost on why I (justifiably) loathe #Markdown? I’d really enjoy someone giving a feedback on it before pushing Publish…