Introducing Markdown Babel: a Universal Tool to Make Markdown Files Executable

Apr 25th, 2025

md-babel is a cross-platform (Linux, macOS) command line utility that enables text editors to execute code blocks and then show the result. https://md-babel.org/ “Enables text editors to” actually means you can use it from VSCode or Emacs or Neovim. Others to come.

Test, Save, and Execute HTTP Requests with Hurl (or restclient.el)

Apr 17th, 2025

So I’ve used restclient.el in the past to embed HTTP requests in readmes and other kinds of documentation to test login flows and APIs as I’ve been writing the corresponding servers. But chances are you can’t use that package since you don’t use Emacs.