I might write something like this:įor instance, if we were able to reduce cart abandonments by a small number we'll see a meaningful revenue lift I may be writing a story for an engineer to implement a new feature and need to justify why I’m asking them to do this work. Here’s where Calca becomes useful: while writing I often want to do some basic math. This interview with Jason Brennan is an interesting look into Frank’s goals in building Calca. I imagine most people who would read my blog do too.
As a fellow engineer I have similar problems. Markdown + Math = CalcaĪn engineer named Frank Krueger made Calca to solve his own problem. Because Markdown is plaintext it plays nice with version control you can use whatever text editor you prefer. There is no fiddling with fonts when writing something in Markdown. Markdown is great because it lets you organize and lightly format your thoughts, but by only providing very simple formatting you’re forced to focus on what you’re writing. My friend Dave Copeland wrote his entire book in Markdown. It was a much better writing experience than using a word processor and I was very pleased with quality of the output.
#SOULVER ALFRED PDF#
I wrote in Markdown, then converted to LaTex using Pandoc, and then generated a PDF by applying the open source tufte-latex class. Recently, I wrote a fairly formal 20-page report. I compose notes and emails in markdown in TextMate 2. It is an “easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format” that converts to HTML.Īny writing I do longer than a paragraph is generally done in Markdown. It’s awesome.įirst I should explain a few things about Markdown.
10 new functions for doing common financial calculations, for example:.Automation tools: a command-line interface, Alfred workflow, Automator action.Deep macOS system integration: Touch Bar support, Quicklook, Calculate anywhere services.
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