Ask HN: How are you using Markdown files these days?

2•fred_terzi•8mo ago

I am now using markdown daily for my AI paired programming, and more and more I see every site and tool using it.

How are you using it?

Comments

sigwinch•8mo ago

It’s a fine interchange format and I prefer it from my ripgrep preprocessor as opposed to text.

fred_terzi•8mo ago

can you explain more what you mean by that? I'm curious what the use case is.

sigwinch•8mo ago

To diff or even just page through a bag of arbitrary documents, there are a bunch of content extractors which helpfully target clean Markdown.

For anything more elaborate, my main competitor to Markdown is the Pandoc internal representation.

mmarian•8mo ago

Using markdown for the content on my blog site built with Astro. Don't have to think about hosting a backend, it's statically-built.

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