Same! I wished there was a native app with the same layout as StackEdit. Btw both the website [0] and the library [1] are open source.

[0]: https://github.com/benweet/stackedit

[1]: https://github.com/benweet/stackedit.js

Markdown source: https://github.com/creationix/howtonode.org/blob/master/arti...

How are courses created? Who creates them?

>Made with in

How did all the haze treats you yesterday?

My friend/co-founder and I wrote these courses.

Thanks for asking. I didn't leave my apartment. Hope everyone who is forced to be outside for work is safe, and this passes soon.

Site: https://stackedit.io/

The OP explains it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130625

> https://markwhen.com

Wow this is also awesome! Some programmers are truly creative people haha

Thank you!

>Sigils are why I gave up learning PERL. Everything I learned had a half life of 10 minutes.

Interesting! By "half life of 10 minutes", do you mean the language was changing too quickly under you or that it was difficult to remember the sigils?

The author defines a _sigil_ as follows:

* a non-alphabetic character

* that is at the start of a word

* that communicates meta-information about the word.

He gives the example of `echo $USER`, where `$` is a single that communicates that `USER` is a variable, presumably with some contents. Thus, I'd wager `$` is a sigil in `$foo`.

I suppose "word" is the constraining factor there, I was thinking of > and # as sigils too, which--if you're willing to be a bit loose with what a "word" is--contradicts that they're unpopular.

>and to have an unsigilled option for people who don't like them

Sigilled "variables" do lose many of the perks that sigils provide though, as codesections explains in the blog.

Thanks for the Austral spec link! Programming languages come and go but I find it deeply interesting when language designers lay out the rationale behind possibly outlandish decisions in their programming languages. Case in point, Larry Wall and Perl-y languages [0]

[0] http://www.wall.org/~larry/natural.html

Oh that's really nice too. Thanks for the link!