web
Posts tagged "web".
- Markdown to PDF Is a Swamp
"Convert this Markdown to a PDF" sounds like a solved problem — a one-liner. It is a swamp: no standard pipeline, a dead-but-ubiquitous engine at its center, and a workflow where you only find out the PDF is wrong after you've made it. I built a tool that doesn't drain the swamp, just hands you an honest map.
- Your Site Has Two Readers Now
For twenty years you wrote for a human and for Googlebot, and they wanted roughly the same thing. Now a third party reads your page, answers the question itself, and never sends the visitor. I built a scanner to see my own site the way that reader does — and scored a 93 for search engines and a 79 for answer engines.