Post #2472316
2026-05-08 19:35 UTC
People have so thoroughly lost the plot with Markdown and complex processing pipelines and the fact that (thanks to GitHub's GFM) almost nobody takes care to make sure the plain text Markdown source is actually readable, because they just treat it as terser markup language instead of a format that was *intended& to be readable in rendered and pre-rendered forms.
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@colby@kosmos.social 2026-05-10 00:14
@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net this was totally coincidental and in no way motivated by (which I only just learned about through HN just now). Thoughts? The comments on HN about Thariq's post focus on Markdown's ability to bail out to embedded HTML, but still: it's Markdown and requires a Markdown-to-HTML transformation step. This way is better, surely.
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@ginsterbusch@kosmos.social 2026-05-09 07:36
@colby@kosmos.social that's why I've been using a reduced set of DokuWiki markup - which by itself apparently is an adapted/subset of Creole - as my forever thing to write each and any type of plain text document.