Markdown on iMil.net

YAML and markdown based website rendering with AngularJS

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:29:52 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, Clark / @jeaneymerit told me he was digging into AngularJS, and as I’m working on a private project where a static website is involved, I thought this framework could help me make that website lightweight in terms of external dependencies.

The site I’m working on contains exclusively static content, and most of it is text, I wanted a simple and elegant method in order to manipulate that content easily, so I wrote a basic website generator in python based on jinja2, for the record it’s available here.

Github flavored markdown with python

Sun, 28 Jul 2013 23:05:45 +0000

I’m slowly migrating some parts of my personal Wiki to Github using their own markdown syntax. Before committing, I wanted to make sure the docs look like they should. Here’s a small Flask snippet I wrote in order to achieve this:

Python Markdown has an extension called fenced code blocks which supports Github’s tidle (```) syntax, thus making this small program’s output similar to what the doc will finally look like.

Markdown everywhere

Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:35:55 +0000

So last week I had that massive presentation to do and was already depressed to click on the Impress icon. So I took a couple of hours to dig into those various HTML5-enabled presentation systems and came across reveal.js. An impressive piece of software that somewhat changed my life forever: Never more am I to fight with misplaced bullets and erroneous indentation, reveal.js permits to create your slides using markdown. Yes, reveal.js is that cool. Using the external markdown capability, I simply edit a .md file which is rendered by the js engine. As I still (and probably for long) use ISO-8859-15 as my main charset, I also pushed a patch to the author which permits to specify included file charset (I learned that AJAX queries use UTF-8 by default).