28 Stories To Learn About Markdown

Let's learn about Markdown via these 28 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. Confluence Is for the Uninformed: Document Management Alternatives to Confluence

Is Confluence your documentation / knowledge-management system? Sick of poor and non-standard rendering, lack of markdown support etc. Favor these alternatives.

2. The Joy of Using SECST Markup

SECST (Semantic, Extensible, Computational, Styleable, Tagged) markup language. Use it to joyfully create compelling, interactive HTML SEO enabled documents.

3. Why Taking Good Notes is Critical For Developers

Why taking good notes is critical for a software developers?

4. How Harold Can Generate A Website For You

Harold (create-harold-app) is a simple tool that provides a ready-to-use template for creating your static websites and blogs.

5. The Joy Of Computational Markup

The SECST markup language, a partial superset of Markdown, provides powerful computational capabilities so you can do Excel like math right in your document.

6. Markdown and Privacy-Focused Note Taking are the Perfect Match

The new Markdown editor marks TagSpaces down as one of the best no-cloud offline note-taking apps for privacy-focused users.

7. The Best Content Collaboration Solutions for Content Production

Comaring 9 different content collaboration tools and platforms to determine which is the best for developer blog management.

8. Server Side Code Highlighting in Node [Explained]

Implementing highlight.js in an Express app for a super fast pre-rendered code highlighting

9. How to Use Github's README Feature to Track Your Stats in One Click

Github recently released profile README feature, which became a hit among developers. As it provides good place to showcase current projects and skills, many addons like visitors-count, github-stats has been developed.

10. The Markdown Test

As an investor, I am focused on what I think of as ‘technical tools.’ That is, tools that either help developers build or deploy code, or tools that help pseudo-technical users do developer-like things. There are some edges for this where it’s hard to delineate what is/isn’t a tool for a technical user, especially in the collaboration space. In fact, much of my thinking here stems from the question, “so does this include stuff like Slack?,” which comes up a surprising amount in conversation.

11. Easily Formatting Markdown Files in VS Code

This VS Code extension helps you when writing markdown to format your text, create lists, and create and modify tables with ease.

12. Using Reddit & Twitter to Make Your README More Effective

Many lessons from my time at university have stuck with me throughout the years. One of the most important was in regards to technical writing (thank you to my CS 787 professor).

13. Open-Sourcing Regular Expressions for Markdown Syntax Module

Arthur Tkachenko describes this process of open-sourcing a npm package for working with regular expressions: https://github.com/atherdon/markdown-to-email

14. How Tech Bloggers Can Maximize Owning a Technical Blog

Based on my experience, what are things beginner tech bloggers can do to maximize the benefits of running a technical blog?

15. 6 Easy Ways to Improve Accessibility in HTML Tables

HTML tables are a great way of visually representing data in a tabular format.

16. Markdown For What? or Why Do We Want Markdown In Our Text Editor?

When I originally teased that we were working on a new editor that supported markdown, I just assumed everyone had heard of it by now! Silly me, I should know

17. Building a ChatGPT-Powered Markdown Documentation

Learn to build markdown documentation with Chatgpt and the OpenAI API

18. How to Make a Rockstar Github Profile README

Show off your Github activity, latest blogs, Spotify streams, and much more with dynamically updating GitHub Profile READMEs!

19. How to Build a Static HTML Blog with squido in 10 Minutes

Static HTML websites are super fast, easy to develop, more secure and dirt cheap to host. Build a static HTML blog in 10 minutes with squido.

20. Next.js Vs. Gatsby: What Is The Best Choice In 2021

Next.js and Gatsby - what their strengths and weaknesses are and which one is the better choice

21. How To Convert HTML to Markdown with a Serverless Function

Outlined below is the setup for a AWS lambda function which combines fetching the HTML for a URL, stripping it back to just the essential article content, and then converting it to Markdown. To deploy it you’ll need an AWS account, and to have the serverless framework installed.

22. Why Git Is A Great Documentation Management Tool

Sometimes not only documentation but also the process of working on it may be critical. For example, in the case of projects, the lion’s share of the work is related to preparing documentation, and the wrong process may lead to errors and even loss of information, and, consequently, loss of time and benefits. But even if this topic is not central to your work, the right process can still improve the quality of the document and save you time.

23. Rendering Markdown Pages with Express and Los Angeles

Node and Express are great for building dynamic websites but often you'll also have some static content too. While its reasonably easy to author these pages in straight HTML a better option for this kind of content is often Markdown.

24. Build a Self-Hosted Online Second Brain Like Evernote

How to use Platypush and other open-source tools to build a notebook synchronized across multiple devices

25. Learning Go by Building a Specification-by-Example Framework

Beginning.

26. How To Start a Technical Blog in 2020

Technical blogging can reinforce your learning, educate people in the tech community, and serve as a good source of income. As a tech blogger, you have the great benefit of becoming a lifelong learner because you need to be well-versed in the field you are writing about to explain the concepts to readers clearly.

27. Marketing 402 for Engineers: Diagnostics & Troubleshooting

Every product or company goes through a similar set of steps on the path to success. For every stage of going to market, there’s a stereotypical set of problems you’ll encounter. In this post, we’ll survey these issues and the vectors by which you might debug them.

28. Doc-as-Code: Managing Content is Easy When it’s Distributed

Few months back, I got a call from GitLab for a technical writer position. One of the question was about treating document as a code and what’s my view on that. The question was about treating document as part of a continuous integration and continuous deployment system. That question came at the time when I wasn’t treating doc as code and ironically, I now have a perspective.

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