It's a Markdown Christmas
December 17, 2014
We finished our Christmas letter to friends and family. As web nerd-ily as possible, of course. I…
- Wrote a draft in Markdown
- Edited it with the wife via email. She doesn’t have a Markdown editor, or even a reader, but who cares? It’s plain text. That’s the point.
- When we finished editing I checked it into a new git repo. Because who doesn’t?
- Then I dove into the CSS. Because I’m a web developer.
- Got the
margin
right for our Christmas stationary. - Chose a
font-family
andfont-size
.
- Got the
- Ran it through Marked to print.
Hooray for another Microsoft Word-free (and troff
-free) Christmas!
The Christmas letter repo will eventually appear on GitHub. Not yet, though - I want to mail them first!