Observed arrival · 2026-09-05
txtfirst wants the web to be markdown first
A technical proposal for sites where one markdown source serves both human-rendered pages and machine-readable content.
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txtfirst publishes a specification alongside implementation material for Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, nginx, and Apache. Its source-first model uses content files as the canonical page and offers the same material through rendered HTML or markdown responses, including explicit Accept-header and .md URL examples. The site also links a dated probe, raw JSON, and probe source, making the proposal inspectable rather than leaving it at a slogan.
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