Martin Donath

@squidfunk

Founder of @zensical, creator of Material for MkDocs

zensical.org

Joined December 2011

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Martin Donath
@squidfunk
Sep 3
I really love where this is going: one unified model of your entire documentation project, from Markdown content to configuration.
Zensical
@zensical
Sep 3
Project configuration is source code, too. Zensical Studio now completes and validates mkdocs.yml and zensical.toml, shows previews for navigation items, and keeps paths synchronized when pages move. zensical.org/studio/
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Martin Donath
@squidfunk
Sep 2
That was a lot of work, but I’m very happy with where we landed. 6 MkDocs plugin replacements, a much more efficient build architecture, and a solid foundation for what comes next!
Zensical
@zensical
Sep 2
Zensical 0.0.58 is out – our largest compatibility and workflow update yet + 6 MkDocs plugin replacements: - meta - redirects - minify - tags - literate-nav - awesome-nav Peak memory use is cut by 30–40%, with the biggest gains on larger projects. github.com/zensical/zensi…
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Martin Donath
@squidfunk
Sep 1
We reduced memory use by 8x in 0.0.54. The next release cuts it another ~40%. More tomorrow.
Zensical
@zensical
Sep 1
New Zensical release tomorrow 🚀 We've been quietly making it faster and leaner – peak memory down by 40% depending on project size. More details in a few hours.
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Martin Donath
@squidfunk
Aug 30
Exactly two years after MkDocs 1.6.1 – the last release of the original MkDocs lineage – there's now an installable MkDocs 2.0 pre-release on PyPI. MkDocs 2.0 is being developed as a ground-up rewrite with a fundamentally different architecture. pypi.org/project/mkdocs…
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Martin Donath
@squidfunk
Aug 28
Some people wonder why we’re working on replacing Python Markdown in Zensical. This trace shows why: it occupies ~91% of the cold-build critical path, while the rest of the pipeline fans out across cores. Our Rust parser removes that bottleneck and unlocks parallelism.