Just in time for my birthday, Posterous added a couple of nice new features. First off, you can style posts with Markdown. This is convenient for me, since I use Markdown in MarsEdit to author my posts for MPR. One post format across multiple tools is handy.
Posterous also added code syntax highlighting. Basically you can markup sections of a post that have code from a wide variety of programming languages. Then the code text will be rendered in a much friendlier fashion for presenting and copy/pasting program snippets. I’ve thought of posting code here on occasion, but didn’t want to hassle with getting it formatted correctly. This Posterous feature gives me a place to park those posts.
We’ll ignore the fact that I haven’t really been posting to my Posterous blog much lately. Maybe these new features will help get me going again.