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Top 7 Markdown Documentation Projects
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Project mention: AI Coding and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Problem | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-12
Before LLMs there existed quite a few tools to try to help with understanding CLI options; off the top of my head there are https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr and explainshell.com
LLMs are both more general and more useful than those tools. They're more flexible and composable, and can replace those tools with a small wrapper script. Part of the reason why the LLMs can do that though is because it has those other tools as datasets to train off of.
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Project mention: Mastering CSS Layout: A Beginner's Guide to Box Model and Flexbox | dev.to | 2025-04-12
MDN Web Docs
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The convention that inspired me is here: https://adr.github.io/madr/. You can also check Amazon’s ADR process here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/architectural-decision-records/adr-process.html.
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Project mention: Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-20
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handbook
Vanilla OS Handbook. Documentation, guides and other useful stuff for users. (by Vanilla-OS)
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Documentation projects in Markdown? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | tldr | 54,802 |
| 2 | content | 9,464 |
| 3 | madr | 1,652 |
| 4 | pandocs | 675 |
| 5 | SettingsGuide | 186 |
| 6 | handbook | 75 |
| 7 | docs | 47 |
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