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DevOps Notebooks Built with Markdown • RUNME
Company blog · runme.dev/blogprogramming
DevOps Notebooks Built with Markdown • RUNME is the company blog at runme.dev, writing about programming. Since 2022, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Runme – Interactive Runbooks Built with Markdown”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link runme.dev as a similar tool for runnable Markdown notebooks and DevOps runbooks. The comments don't judge its writing, though one commenter criticised the homepage hero video.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Runme turns your documentation into interactive notebooks for operating cloud infrastructure. Put another way, you can use your docs the way you use your terminal, instead of just as a reference that tends to go out of date.
Most-linked posts?
- Runme – Interactive Runbooks Built with Markdown5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-10-20
- Runme: DevOps Notebooks Built with Markdown4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-23
- Roll Up Terminals into a Knowledge Base2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-26
- Typed ENV Variables for Valid Environments from Dev to Production2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-08
What Hacker News says?
I didn't find the hero video on https://runme.dev/ very helpful. I think it would be much easier to understand what Runme is for if you replaced the video with the "Make Markdowns Interactive" demos.
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on “Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run”Submitted Markdown – Runnable Notebooks with VS Code as a story · 31 points
HN discussionThis looks super similar to https://runme.dev
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on “Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run”Submitted Roll Up Terminals into a Knowledge Base as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAlso see https://runme.dev for a similar approach or https://speedrun.cc if you'd like it to work straight from GitHub markdown.
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on “Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run – Now Open Source”Submitted Show HN: A Pastebin for Terminals Inside Your Docs as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI was recently researching apps like this for the usecase of writing devops/tech-support "playbooks", and also (related) "runnable readmes". Among many approaches and attempts I found, I most liked the one taken by https://runme.dev , for a bunch of reasons. Did you try it? Do you (plan to) support their features and format? It was still missing a few things I'd like (including some that I see in yours), but to me i…
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on “Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes”Submitted Runme – Interactive Runbooks Built with Markdown as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThere's something similar in concept here: https://runme.dev/
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on “Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes”Submitted Logical Extension of IaC: Docs as the Code as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Runme – Run your README.md as an interactive notebook as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shebang Your Runbooks as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elevating Tasks over Files in the Runme CLI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embed GitHub Actions in Your Docs as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Typed ENV Variables for Valid Environments from Dev to Production as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Notebook-Native CI/CD: Runme for Dagger as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Runme runs Markdown as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Runme: DevOps Notebooks Built with Markdown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Typed Variables for Valid Dev and Production Environments as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS and GCP Resources Inlined Inside Your Docs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Embed GitHub Actions in Your Docs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sure, Your Claude Is Doing Things. Prove It as a story · 1 points
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