- Sep 19, 2026 — [Serving Markdown for AI Agents, Now as a Jekyll Plugin](/2026/09/19/serving-markdown-with-a-jekyll-plugin.html)

Back in January I wrote Serving Markdown for AI Agents: for every page on this blog, there’s also a .md version at the same URL, discoverable via a <link rel="alternate" type...

- Apr 11, 2026 — [How I Made $360 by Serving Markdown to A.I. agents from My Jekyll Blog](/2026/04/11/how-i-made-360-dollars-by-serving-markdown-from-my-jekyll-blog.html)

In April 2025 I wrote Apologizing for My Obsessiveness Over Punctuation, a post about my various organizational compulsions. Near the end, almost as an aside, I mentioned that I...

- Jan 15, 2026 — [Serving Markdown for AI Agents in Jekyll](/2026/01/15/serving-markdown-for-ai-agents.html)

Dries Buytaert recently wrote about The Third Audience. For decades, websites have targeted two audiences: humans and search engines. AI agents are now the third audience, and m...

- Jun 7, 2021 — [To Wrap or Not to Wrap in Markdown?](/2021/06/07/to-wrap-or-not-to-wrap-in-markdown.html)

I keep antagonizing OSS contributors trying to wrap text in Markdown files, e.g. here and here.

- Aug 31, 2014 — [Syntax Highlighting in Markdown Content with Recarpet, Coderay and Rails](/2014/08/31/syntax-highlighting-in-markdown-content-with-recarpet-coderay-and-rails.html)

I wanted Ruby and JSON code blocks ala Github’s Flavored Markdown when rendering markdown documents in doppler. The idea is that we can API documentation authored in markdown, a...

- Nov 7, 2011 — [Rendering Markdown Documents in Rails](/2011/11/07/rendering-markdown-documents-in-rails.html)

There’s got to be a prettier way of implementing this.

- Sep 15, 2011 — [Rails Editable Mail Templates w/Preview from 37Signals](/2011/09/15/rails-editable-mail-templates-wpreview-from-37signals.html)

Last time we added custom editable mail templates to our mailers and made them Markdown format [read first]. Awesome. Let’s add a preview to the templates with 37-signals mail\_v...

- Sep 9, 2011 — [Rails: Custom and Editable Mailer Templates in Markdown](/2011/09/09/rails-custom-and-editable-mailer-templates-in-markdown.html)

You love markdown? We do too.

- Feb 21, 2011 — [Adding (almost) static pages to your fancy Rails website](/2011/02/21/adding-almost-static-pages-to-your-fancy-rails-website.html)

So you’ve built the super amazing complicated Rails website. You are serving data from millions of documents from MongoDB, rendering complex objects using HAML and generally doi...