Syntax Highlighting makes your code look pretty, right? But is it just an aesthetic nicety, or does it have a more functional impact? And are there ways to improve it? Long ago, when I first learned ...

This Chrome extension lets you compose emails in Markdown, and then convert it to HTML to use in Gmail. Gmail doesn’t offer you much in the way of formatting to make your emails look more attactive.

MarkdownPad Pro is excellent, but you should try the free options before paying for it. HTML is the lingua franca of the Web. If you publish anything online, that’s the format your text will end up in ...

Byword is my text editor of choice on the iPhone, and the one I recommend to anyone who’s not willing to play with Editorial and its advanced automation features on the iPad. While not as customizable ...

This should put a smile on the coders out there. Posterous, the blogging platform, has just announced markdown and syntax highlighting support. This means greater control over styling but also allows ...

There’s a simple idea about productivity and writing: almost anything you need to do, you can do in a plain text file. By a plain text file, I mean a .txt file that contains nothing but text without ...

Vim has code syntax highlighting already available for a huge array of programming languages, and most of them are installed by default, so in most cases you can just open up your source code files ...

Is there a version of less that has vim's syntax highlighting? There are a lot of times I just want to read code, and using vim to do it is a little cumbersome. I've even pondered hacking the vim ...

Runestone is the latest app from Simon Støvring, the developer behind Scriptable, Jayson, and Data Jar. Støvring’s apps tend to be focused on developer or automation use cases, filling holes in the ...