As a software developer myself, I've found that markdown is the most important tool in my toolbox. It's the glue that holds everything together. It's the key to keeping my projects organized and on track. Every day, I interact with people who build, use, maintain, support or manage the software my team builds. Markdown is the language that allows us to communicate with them. And because it's a content first format, it's the perfect tool for the job. My team uses markdown to write user guides, support docs and readmes. We use it in our pull requests, issues, slack messages and even in our code comments. When we have to write something for confluence so stakeholders can access it, we put it in a markdown file and publish it there. If confluence isn't available, we still have our source code and markdown files to refer to.
I first got acquainted with markdown when I created an account on github in 2010. At the time I was working as the software development man
