If you’re like me, you love discovering new ways to boost your productivity and workflows. One of my favorite tools is Draw.io. I’ve used the desktop tool and the site, but I found a new integration that has significantly elevated my VSCode experience: the Draw.io Integration extension.
This is part 2 of the MARP series. You can read the series of articles here:
Marp - Create Presentations with Markdown Unleash Your Creativity with Marp Presentation Customization Introduction # Marp is a powerful Markdown presentation framework that enables you to create stunning slides effortlessly. By using simple text-based formatting, you can easily customize your presentations to suit your unique needs and style. Although Marp provides built-in themes and configurations, the true potential of this framework can be realized by customizing your presentations to suit your unique needs and style. In this blog post, we will delve into some of the key customization options available in Marp and guide you through the process of creating a truly standout presentation.
This is part 1 of the MARP series. You can read the series of articles here:
Marp - Create Presentations with Markdown Unleash Your Creativity with Marp Presentation Customization Introduction # Marp is a powerful and user-friendly presentation framework that simplifies the process of creating visually appealing slide decks using Markdown. In this blog post, we’ll explore what Marp is, why you might want to use it, how to get started. I’ll share my process and show you how you can automate hosting your presentations on GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions.
I haven’t done a lot with jekyll in the past, but I’m a big fan of Markdown everything. For me that usually means I’m taking notes in Markdown Obsidian, doing diagrams in mermaid in Azure DevOps or https://mermaid.live/. I’ve even started turning my talk slides into Markdown with a tool called MARP.
Understanding when I use standard Markdown or some sort of templating language (jekyll uses Liquid) has been fun. I’ll do something in HTML or Markdown, then find out that Jekyll or my theme already has helpers to render that (like gists, videos, and figures). Sometimes rendering more advanced things takes a little tweaking of Jekyll and the theme.
I’ve been hosting on WordPress for a while. I wanted something that worked pretty well and was easy to work with. I picked a decent theme, added some plugins, pointed my domains and was up and running. I would work on blogs in Markdown, and then paste the txt into a Markdown. I could upload a few images and move them around in a wysiwyg.
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot more in Markdown. All my conference talks were in PowerPoint but I’ve started switching over to Markdown slides using MARP. I should probably do a post on MARP sometime (I did :-) ). I wanted to reduce my overhead of WordPress Hosting and get back into more direct styling and coding of my theme. I decided to switch my hosting to Jekyll on GitHub Pages.
