Some time ago, while I was working on my app Rex Tables, I wrote some quick code that reads a Markdown file with some “slide” data and automatically displays an app walkthrough. It wasn’t really meant for other people to use since it made use of a paid Swift package for the transition effects in the walkthrough. But that package, namely Pow, just become open sourced last week! So I pulled the code out of Rex Tables and did a quick pass to tighten up a couple of things and pushed it to GitHub. …

For my apps dataFude for Simulator and Rex Tables I have few command line tools that run some end-to-end tests. I use MarkCodable to easily print reports to the console. In this short post I’m gonna show how MarkCodable cuts down on some of the turnaround time when I’m making tools. MarkCodable I wrote about MarkCodable previously when I released it: Introducing MarkCodable but I wanted to give you some more examples, just for fun. …

I had a lot of fun listening to “A releational database using Markdown” episode with John Sundell and Gui Rambo: After taking a moment though, I started realizing that there is a whole plethora of use cases where Markdown could be a great storage for some of my data. Markdown supports tables and they are pretty easy to view, parse and edit by hand. On the other hand, JSON isn’t very easy to view or edit by hand, which is sometimes more important for me, given I work on a lot of small tooling that automates or performs specific tasks and usually doesn’t need a large dataset. …