Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

kept by eddie jan 14

Ferrite is a fast, native Markdown editor built with Rust and egui that renders Mermaid diagrams without JavaScript dependencies.

Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
Hacker News commenters discuss a tool that renders Mermaid diagrams as ASCII art, praising its terminal use but noting bugs and accessibility issues.
also on Mermaid, #open-source, #developer-tools
Sätteri
Sätteri combines a high-performance Rust Markdown/MDX engine with extensible JavaScript plugins to offer fast, customizable document processing for developers in web applications.
also on Markdown, #rust, #open-source, #developer-tools
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
Markdown, created by John Gruber in 2004 as a simple plain-text formatting tool for blogging, has become the ubiquitous standard for annotating everything from AI prompts to code repositories.
also on Markdown, #programming-languages, #open-source, #developer-tools
It's Time to Walk
Dictation and agentic AI allow knowledge workers to walk and rest, shifting focus from production to direction.
also on Obsidian, #user-experience
Designing for Agents (via @teddy_riker)
Designing for AI agents requires abandoning traditional deterministic UI patterns in favor of interfaces that expose intent, state, and error-handling to autonomous systems.
also on Obsidian, #user-experience