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fromSearch Engine Roundtable
2 days ago

Google & Bing Call Markdown Files Messy & Causes More Crawl Load

What happens when the AI companies (inevitably) encounter spam and attempts at SEO/GEO manipulation in the markdown files targeted to bots? What happens when the .md files no longer provide an equivalent experience to what users are seeing? What happens if they continue crawling those pages but actually toss them out before using the content to form a response? ...And we keep conflating "bot crawling activity" with "the bots are using/liking my markdown content?" How will we know if they're actually using the .md files or not?
Marketing tech
Artificial intelligence
fromDigiday
3 days ago

WTF is Markdown for AI agents?

AI systems and agents prefer structured markdown or APIs over raw HTML, making automated HTML-to-markdown conversion essential for efficient content ingestion and visibility.
#astro
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
6 days ago

Cloudflare turns websites into faster food for AI agents

Cloudflare enables publishers to serve Markdown to AI crawlers, reducing markup token overhead and lowering AI ingestion costs and processing complexity.
#notepad
fromThe Verge
1 week ago
Information security

Microsoft fixes Notepad flaw that could trick users into clicking malicious Markdown links

fromThe Verge
1 week ago
Information security

Microsoft fixes Notepad flaw that could trick users into clicking malicious Markdown links

Information security
fromTheregister
1 week ago

Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of RCE

Notepad's Markdown support contains a vulnerability (CVE-2026-20841) that can achieve remote code execution when users open a malicious Markdown file and click a link.
Python
fromdaniel.feldroy.com
2 months ago

TIL: Default code block languages for mkdocs

Set default_lang: python in mkdocs.yml using pymdownx.highlight so code blocks without language tags are highlighted as Python.
#rails
Writing
fromhttps://daniel.feldroy.com
4 months ago

Over Twenty Years of Writing Tools

Over twenty years of online publishing used many platforms; hosted services caused content loss, prompting a preference for Markdown files in Git repositories for preservation.
Online learning
from2ality
5 months ago

Learning web development: Markdown

Markdown is a simple, readable plain-text markup language for formatting text (headings, lists, bold) commonly used in programming documentation and version-controlled projects.
Web development
fromRaymondcamden
5 months ago

Time for something new...

A personal website adopted a new GenAI-generated theme while keeping Eleventy and Markdown, with ongoing tweaks and source code available for inspection.
fromHackernoon
6 months ago

Here's How You Can Build Your Own Markdown Parser: Part 2 - How to Read File From the Command Line | HackerNoon

This program implements a command-line interface that accepts a markdown file as a command-line argument, reads its content, and prints the entire content to the terminal.
Software development
Web development
fromhackernoon.com
7 months ago

How I Made My Next.js Blog Serve Markdown Files for Agent Experience SEO (AX-SEO)

Agent Experience SEO focuses on optimizing content for AI agents, improving discoverability and indexing by ensuring clean, structured data formats.
fromMouse Vs Python
7 months ago

Creating a Website with Sphinx and Markdown - Mouse Vs Python

To create a barebones Sphinx site, run the command sphinx-quickstart NAME_OF_SITE_FOLDER inside your virtual environment. It will ask you a series of questions.
Python
#text-formatting
fromWIRED
7 months ago
Web design

How to Use Markdown

Markdown is a simple text formatting system that uses characters to apply rich formatting like bold, italics, links, and images.
fromInfoWorld
9 months ago
Typography

What is Markdown? Lightweight text formatting for human beings

Markdown simplifies writing formatted documents, making it accessible for everyone, not just developers.
fromRubyflow
8 months ago

GitHub Flavored Markdown in Rails with Commonmarker

Commonmarker stands out among Ruby gems as it implements the CommonMark specifications while also accommodating GitHub-flavored Markdown, which enhances user functionality and satisfaction.
Typography
fromThe Verge
8 months ago

Microsoft releases a bold new update for Notepad

Microsoft's Notepad app now includes text formatting features like bold, italic, and Markdown support for enhanced editing capabilities.
Java
fromRaymondcamden
9 months ago

Parsing Markdown in BoxLang - Take 3

An official Markdown module in BoxLang simplifies Markdown to HTML conversions, enhancing ease of use for developers.
fromClickUp
9 months ago

10 Best Bear App Alternatives for Note-Taking in 2025 | ClickUp

Bear is one of the most elegant markdown writing apps with a seamless approach to recording thoughts, jotting down memos, and cataloging information.
Apple
fromRubyflow
9 months ago
Ruby on Rails

Markdown image uploads with EasyMDE and Active Storage

Markdown is efficient for content creation but struggles with image handling in standard editors.
#ui-design
fromMedium
10 months ago
UX design

UI Design with ChatGPT 4o

ChatGPT can effectively generate UI design when used with structured prompts like Markdown.
fromMedium
10 months ago
UX design

UI Design with ChatGPT 4o

ChatGPT can effectively generate UI designs, especially with the latest update enhancing quality.
A well-structured markdown prompt is crucial for improving design clarity and coherence.
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