The last couple of days have been relatively productive. Thanks to GitHub's excellent API documentation, I've got to the stage where I can reliably authenticate a user with my application via Oauth, and use their key to pull basic user info such as their private email address and GitHub ID.

Markdown is great. As a formatting language, I find it to be pretty much unparalleled for speed and ease of syntax. Not having to think overly hard about style allows you to focus purely on the quality of the content.