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phone8675309 | 1 year ago

> Maybe I don’t know much about Markdown, but my understanding is that the whole point of it is to provide a syntax where the most common HTML tags for prose can be replaced by simple punctuation characters that are meant to be visible to the writer.

Cracking up at this quote

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dpritchett|1 year ago

The deadpan was so good there I had to stop and double check the origins of Markdown just to make sure my mind wasn’t playing tricks on me. Hard to believe it’s been twenty years!

keybored|1 year ago

> The deadpan

Based on his interaction with the CommonMark people I would characterize it more as overly possessive.

tomcam|1 year ago

Milspec troll. I was nonplussed and rechecked a few of his articles as well.