I concur. Really great post! Been an engineer for a while, starting to prepare to put together SaaS products, so this will be useful to come back to. Thank you, OP!

I agree. It is indeed a novel project, but has little to actually do with TeX.

I agree too.

I write a lot of LaTeX documents and use the TeX Live distribution to typeset them, so I understand why the name TeXMe could cause some confusion.

This project only cares about protecting the LaTeX content (the MathJax supported LaTeX, not the "real" LaTeX) by hiding it from the Markdown processor, so that the Markdown processor cannot mangle the LaTeX code before it is fed to MathJax.

I could have named it MathMe, JaxMe, or something similar that would have eliminated this confusion between MathJax supported TeX/LaTeX[1] and the "real" TeX/LaTeX. However, unfortunately I did not spend sufficient time thinking about a good name for this project, thus the name TeXMe.

[1]: http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/tex.html

Such a solid article. Refreshing to read this.

This is an excellent essay about both writing and being so different.

an awesome (in the literal sense) piece of work - hardware, software, engineering, design, communication, promotion

thanks, glad you enjoyed it

welcome development. apparent that Firefox is paying attention what's happening in JS world...

Feels like Medium is clutching at straws after failing with the Members-Only content model...

so novel and simple!

Why can't CEOs just build products and help customers and abstain from moral crusades?

Because they need to provide some value to lure in the eye for the advertising

Great answer.

Is it a moral crusade to improve the product for people creating your content?

No, but I'd say it's more than that, given the article.