MacVoices #26113: The Road to Macstock with Brett Terpstra

Brett Terpstra previews his Macstock Conference and Expo session focused on Markdown, explaining how it simplifies writing, publishing, and archiving content. He highlights its portability, ease of use, and growing relevance with AI tools. His presentation will covers Markdown editor, practical workflows from idea to publication, and new utilities that enhance productivity while reducing reliance on complex word processors.

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Show Notes:

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction to MacStock series and guest
1:38 Brett’s session topic: Markdown overview
2:46 What Markdown is and why it matters
4:18 Tools and editors for writing Markdown
5:41 Brett’s apps and Markdown utilities
7:24 Archiving and portability benefits
9:57 Why Markdown is for everyone
11:21 Markdown’s connection to AI workflows
15:09 What attendees will learn in the workshop
17:46 WordPress and cleaner publishing workflows
18:46 MacStock registration and discount codes
20:07 Where to find Brett and his projects

Links:

Macstock Conference and Expo - Brett’s discount code is “ttscoff"

The MacVoices discount code is “macvoices"

Guests:

Brett works as a technical content writer and software developer for the Developer Relations team at Oracle. In his free time, he also a coder, podcaster, author, and web developer.

He develops and maintains a Markdown previewer for Mac called Marked 2 and an automation tool called Bunch. I also have over 100 open source projects, ranging from one-off utilities to full fledged command line apps. You can see everything I’ve worked on/am working on on the projects page. His current podcast is my more eccentric (and often sacreligious) conversations with Christina Warren and Jeff Severns Guntzel on Overtired.

I can be found as “ttscoff” just about everywhere, including Twitter, Mastodon, and Github.

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