Version 1.4.3 of Parsons’s Discount is out, and with it, Plan 9 support becomes part of the official distribution. The Plan9 subdirectory added to the source contains a mkfile that drives Discount’s own scripts and APE’s make(1) to build the code, optionally copying the results to locations appropriate for system-wide use. Man(6)-format manual pages are also ...

Along with a number of improvements, David Parsons added a patch in v1.4.2 of his Discount that brings Qchar()’s signature in line with its prototype, and enables building the stock Discount source without modification under Plan 9’s APE....

Following Anthony Sorace’s lead and borrowing a bit of rc(1) code from his tweet, I’ve whipped up a quickie script for posting a notice to identi.ca or your Laconica server of choice. It’s called dent, and you can retrieve it from /n/sources/contrib/josh/rc/dent on a Plan 9 system, or look at the few lines of script at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/josh/rc/dent...

When you really don’t want any dirty old Perl on your file server, you go looking for a Markdown filter in plain C. If you find David Parsons’ Discount, your work porting to Plan 9 isn’t too tough at all....

I’ve developed an addiction to Markdown after a few weeks using it here to write posts. So I want markdown for some chores on my main system, which is generally Plan 9. This means I need Perl to interpret the markdown.pl script....

Renee French is a favorite illustrator, and I like this poor fellow she recently posted at her sketch blog....