Developing markdown.download: Exporing val.town, deno, jsr.io
I read a lot. I enjoy reading on black and white e-readers. Unfortunately many websites make it hard to read them on simple devices. https://markdown.download is my really simple solution to that. Prepend it to any website and curl:
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That turns a user-hostile website into a thing that almost anything can render:
It’s amazing how much cleaner the web is when stripped down to essence.
Turns out markdown (or html restricted to what markdown can do) renders fantastic on readers of all types.
Since markdown.download is so utterly simple, I decided to try using it to learn a new-to-me dev tool: val.town. Rest of this post covers what I learned.
I initially was going to publish this project as an npm lib and deploy on cloudflare, but was putting it off because I loathe the amount of bureaucracy that involves. I love the type system in Typescript. I love Node.JS because it’s the least-bad way to write/deploy apps, but much room for improvement remains. My spare time is too valuable to spend it suffering.