Why is Markdown popular?

Welcome to my new blog! My first computer. A TRS-80 Color Computer. I still have it in my garage. Hi there! It’s been a while. I’m almost not even sure how to write these things any more, after doing it daily for like a decade or so, it seems weird starting again. But it’s time - it seems long-form writing is making a...

We need an HTML Document standard I’ve recently been messing with Markdown (to my utter chagrin) with the idea of using it to update my resume and blog. I was simply astounded by how much recreation of solved problems is going on in that space. I prefer JavaScript/Node so I’ve played with UnifiedJS (remark/rehype), MarkdownIt, MarkedJS, and...

The Hypertext HTML Document Editor Introducing the Hypertext HTML Document Editor World Wide Web: Phase 2 Hypertext is a new rich-text editor for creating documents using HTML instead of using an 18 year old text format or complex word processor files. It's an app created using web technologies for creating actual documents, not websites, web...

My simple blog generator: Hypertext Blogmaker So in addition to the Hypertext HTML Document editor PWA app I made, I also created a quick NodeJS static blog generator which works with the docs that Hypertext spits out. You can grab it from Github here. Here's a quick intro on how to use it, first grab it from the repo, either with git or...

Hypertext Demo Video I whipped up a quick introduction video which shows the features and functionality of the Hypertext Document Editor. As I said in the video, it's a basic run through - I'll create something fancier, as well as actual documentation - soon.  If you have any questions/comments, let me know! -Russ