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The author turned a one‑off script that rendered each Jekyll page to Markdown and added a `<link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown">` tag into a reusable Jekyll plugin (jekyll‑md). The gem hooks into the build, extracts the main content (defaulting to `<main>` or `[role="main"]`), converts it to Markdown, injects the discovery link, and requires no per‑page front‑matter. Configuration is option…
The article argues that starting meetings with everyone’s hand raised and lowering it when finished (counting down) gives facilitators a clear signal of who still needs time, unlike the opposite approach that counts up. Counting down avoids miscounts, reduces failure modes, and leaves a clean hand‑down state for post‑reading discussion.
The author used GitHub Copilot CLI to port a Strava bot from Discord to Microsoft Teams in three days, a ~7× speedup over the three‑week manual effort. The post details token usage, cost, bugs that slipped through, and stresses that good test coverage is still essential.
