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Chase McCoy
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Chase McCoy's personal blog at chasem.co covers web and design. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Chase McCoy's post on Markdoc to explain why it separates concerns better than MDX for interactive docs, since MDX requires JSX/JS knowledge and dedicated tooling.
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Chase McCoy is a blogger and design engineer who writes about the web and other creative technologies.
What Hacker News says?
Chase McCoy had a good note explaining it: https://chasem.co/2022/05/markdoc Basically because MDX mixes JSX and markdown, you need knowledge of JSX/JS (which non-devs might not have), and tooling dedicated to build, parse it and so on. Markdoc is more of a "separation of concerns" approach.
Comment linking /2022/05/markdoc
on “Interactive Docs with Markdoc”Submitted New Magic for Animations in CSS as a story · 42 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design Systems as Knowledge Graphs as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Gap Problem as a story · 1 points
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