This is a paragraph, it’s surrounded by whitespace. Next up are some headers, they’re heavily influenced by GitHub’s markdown style.

##Evaluating Markdown, documenting your work and other dev stories

Evaluating Markdown

After trying various platforms for documenting work, Hugo and Jekyll appealed the most of the bunch. Their ease of use, especially the static site generation, SSG, was a strong deciding factor for taking deep dives into the mechanics of how these platforms work. The fact that you could template therein was also a clincher!

• A bulletted list
• alternative syntax 1
• alternative syntax 2
  • an indented list item

1. An
2. ordered
3. list

Inline markup styles:

• italics
• bold
• code()

Blockquote

Nested Blockquote

Syntax highlighting can be used with triple backticks, like so:

/* Some pointless Javascript */
var rawr = ["r", "a", "w", "r"];

Use two trailing spaces
on the right
to create linebreak tags

Finally, horizontal lines