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Morgan McGuire
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Morgan McGuire writes Casual Effects, a personal blog at casual-effects.com about programming, science and design. Since 2015, 67 different Hacker News readers have linked it 115 times, most often “Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax40 people · 63 mentions · first linked 2016-02-15
- Markdeep11 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2015-10-16
- MarkDeep Feature Demo (look at the source)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-04-05
- /markdeep4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-04-21
- Markdeep feature demo (look at the source)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-19
- Ray Tracing a Tiny Procedural Planet [pdf]2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-03
What Hacker News says?
The "source available" part kind of reminds me of MarkDeep (though in markdeep, the source is the document itself): https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
Comment linking /markdeep/
on “Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?”Submitted Markdeep – plain text documents with diagrams, equations, and Markdown syntax as a story · 360 points
HN discussionYou could publish "html" that is actually http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
Comment linking /markdeep/
on “Architecture.md”Submitted Markdeep as a story · 256 points
HN discussionDepending on how simple you want it, you could just use MarkDeep, TexMe or MdMe plus something like NeoCities or a Github repo. You'd miss out on some benefits of a full generator, like automatically creating an archive page and RSS feeds and stuff like that, but you'd gain that 90's simplicity. [0] https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ [1] https://github.com/susam/texme [2] https://github.com/susam/mdme [3] https://…
Comment linking /markdeep/
on “Medium is a poor choice for blogging”Submitted Ray Tracing a Tiny Procedural Planet [pdf] as a story · 247 points
HN discussionhttp://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ has had ASCII-art-as-vector-image features for quite some time now. It's in need of a good editor, though.
Comment linking /markdeep/
on “Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid”Submitted Markdeep markup language as a story · 174 points
HN discussionYou know what's even better to me than GitHub-Flavoured Markdown? Markdeep: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ Demo: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html Yes, I know they likely provided it for compatibility, but markdeep is just too cool to not mention.
Comment linking /markdeep/features.md.html
on “GitLab Pages”Submitted Markdeep as a story · 109 points
HN discussionNice! This would be super cool when applied to some nice diagramming libraries like Mermaid and Markdeep. https://github.com/knsv/mermaid https://casual-effects.com/markdeep
Comment linking /markdeep
on “Show HN: Wired-elements – UI web components with a hand drawn, sketchy look”Submitted MMPX Style-Preserving Pixel Art Magnification [pdf] as a story · 64 points
HN discussionthis reminds me of https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
Comment linking /markdeep/
on “Show HN: This website is valid JSON”Submitted Markdeep as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThe actual code: https://github.com/google/filament Additional docs on their material system: https://google.github.io/filament//Materials.md.html https://google.github.io/filament/Material%20Properties.pdf Also, I'll plug http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ which was apparently used to format the docs.
Comment linking /markdeep/
on “Filament: Physically-based rendering engine”Submitted Markdeep: diagrams, calendars, equations, and more as extensions of Markdown as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm surprised nobody mentioned MarkDeep as an extension to MarkDown[0]. It features a lot of convenient extras, and Morgan McGuire (who created it) has slowly been improving it over the years. https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
Comment linking /markdeep/
on “Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text”Submitted Markdeep as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ has a similar idea but different execution. I use something similar for my blog (I don't have a WYSIWYG editor for the widgets though, that's pretty neat): The posts are written in markdown, but then there's a few "widgets" that are basically markdown code blocks with a special "language" tag set that will render a React component with the text content as a input prop. I also use…
Comment linking /markdeep/
on “Plain text, with lines”Submitted McGuire Computer Graphics Archive as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you haven't seen it yet, check out Markdeep: http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ . Write in any text editor, and a tiny JS boilerplate turns it into nicely-rendered HTML.
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on “Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text (2018)”Submitted TurtleScript: Make Art with Math as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI didn't see anyone mention Markdeep [0] yet. I started with a notes.txt file for the system I maintain. I found myself gradually adopting Markdown syntax because I need bulleted lists and headings to separate different sections. I also needed hyperlinks to documentation or StackOverflow answers. So one day I just added the Markdeep tags to the bottom of the file and renamed it to notes.md.html I still keep it open…
Comment linking /markdeep/
on “My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)”Submitted Markdeep as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere is an option to draw diagrams with Markdeep: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep
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on “Generate Flowcharts from Text”Submitted Casual Effects – Computer Graphics Projects by Morgan McGuire as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGreat work! Are you aware of markdeep? https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ ...support for it might be a nice addition to this project.
Comment linking /markdeep/
on “Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer”Submitted MarkDeep Feature Demo (look at the source) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMarkDeep tries this, it doesn't quite work in my opinion: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/features.md.html#toc2
Comment linking /markdeep/features.md.html
on “Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text”Submitted Markdeep Feature Demo as a story · 1 points
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