Why Markdown?

I’m so pleased that Brett Terpstra is writing more. Today he put up a small post that answers the question, Why Markdown? Brett is also going to be our guest on the next Mac Power Users episode, Power Text Editors.

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Byword Daily File

With Lion’s new document versioning framework, I’ve been running a single Byword document called “Daily” for two months. I use it every day to write text for any of a number of uses ranging from contract language to blog posts. All of this text…

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Animated sheet music

Outstanding find by Kottke (and pointed out to me by Ernie Svenson). Giant Steps and Confirmation are both rights of passage for every saxophonist. It is not the fact that you can faithfully play one of these solos that gets you in the club…

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Steve and Tim

That Steve would retire was not difficult to see coming. What we all wondered was whether they’d stay in-house for a successor or go outside. John Gruber nailed it last month. (No surprise.) Still, it is good to see that the company is in…

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