The season of giving (and markdown!) is here, and we’re back with your festive monthly roundup of fresh updates, visionary voices building on HackMD, and timely industry news.
So grab a cup of cocoa, cozy up to a warm fireplace, and let’s dive into December’s Markdown Memo! 🎄✨
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🌟 Visionary voices
- BigSky7 discusses proximity and Reed-Solomon Codes.
- Ian-knowable discusses how to delegate NAM on mainnet.
- PRAGMA-org introduces Amaru an open-source project that aims to build a new fully interoperable block-producing node.
📄 Product updates & new features
Update 1.77.3 is now LIVE!
We’ve been busy elves here at HackMD, working tirelessly to bring you the best editing experience possible! You might notice some exciting new changes as we continue fine-tuning the editor to make it even better for our community.
Some of those updates and changes include:
- Hide comment button when disabled
- Fix to close the copy menu when switching to view mode
- Preparing for a NEW feature you all have been asking for 😉
Stay tuned for more surprises—you’re going to love what’s coming next! 🎁
Let it snow
Yup! You read that right, this year HackMD is bringing the Christmas spirit to you by turning your workspace into a winter wonderland. Every time you enter one of the trigger words while writing the magic will begin. ❄️
Trigger words include:
- Let it snow
- Christmas
- Holiday
Getting a little too chilly and want to turn off this feature? just click the wrench icon 🔧 at the bottom of your note and uncheck “Let it snow” to stop the animation at any time.
Merry Christmas from us here at HackMD! 🎅🏻
HackMD is available in Japanese
We are delighted to announce that the HackMD website is now available in Japanese. We understand the importance of using a tool in your native language, and we are thrilled to offer our Japanese users a more comfortable and intuitive experience.
🖋️ From the blog
Enhance your research using HackMD
Research thrives on collaboration and organization. In fact, those are two research cornerstones: collaborating with others to share knowledge and push innovation forward, while creating organized, repeatable procedures to confirm findings.
Want to know how to make your research better in 2025? Take a look here.
2024 Recap
As we wrap up an incredible year at HackMD, we’re taking a moment to reflect on 2024 – a year filled with growth and collaboration for you and our team. From launching some of your most-requested features to welcoming more than 160k new teams, creators, and innovators, it’s been an eventful ride. Read more here.
🎁 Holiday Giveaway
As promised we have a gift for you this year and it is BIG. We want to give one of YOU a year FREE of HackMD Prime and it is easy to enter.
Here’s how to enter:
- Like and share one of these giveaway posts (Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn)
- Follow us on the corresponding channel (i.e. if you liked and shared on Twitter, follow us there)
- Comment on the post with your HackMD profile link
Everyone has until Friday, January 3rd, 2025 at 11:59pm PT to enter.
Terms and conditions apply.
📰 Industry news and trends
- Bitcoin’s $100K+ run is just early days.
- AI agents are transforming the software development life cycle.
- U.S. crypto stocks surge.
- Couchbase tackles agentic AI development challenges.
- Memecoins are here to stay, says expert panel.
- Google plans to merge Chrome OS and Android.
- Is Ethereum poised to catch up with Bitcoin and Solana?.
- Amazon announces its own series of foundation models, Amazon Nova.
- Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s Hawkish comments throw some cold water on crypto.
- GitHub Copilot users gain access to Stack Overflow knowledge.
Do you have an article or paper you’d like to feature in the Markdown Memo? We’d love to hear from you. Reply to this email or share it in Discord.
As we wrap up this festive edition of the Markdown Memo, we want to thank you for being part of the HackMD community this year. 🎄
We can’t wait to see what you build in 2025, The HackMD Team
