Post #3267196
2026-06-08 00:33 UTC
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@jrdepriest@infosec.exchange 2026-06-08 00:51
@whbboyd@infosec.exchange @ifixcoinops@retro.social Missing "reveal codes" is probably why I prefer to write first drafts of documentation in Markdown before sacrificing it to Confluence.
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@RealGene@hachyderm.io 2026-06-08 01:49
@whbboyd@infosec.exchange @ifixcoinops@retro.social Final Word, by Mark of the Unicorn, had you write markup directly to format your document. It was notorious for destroying your document when you inevitably had to switch floppy disks.
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@ELS@sfba.social 2026-06-08 02:09
@whbboyd@infosec.exchange @ifixcoinops@retro.social I preferred wordstar, myself. Switching to wysiwyg slowed my typing speed traumatically.
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@DavidBridger@writing.exchange 2026-06-08 02:33
@whbboyd@infosec.exchange @ifixcoinops@retro.social It's 3.30am in my world, year doesn't matter, I'm scrolling on my phone in bed while waiting for painkillers at 4am to happen, and I just gave a little whimper of yearning when you said WordPerfect.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-06-08 15:41
@whbboyd@infosec.exchange That's basically how web editors with preview panes work, except you're editing the codes. @ifixcoinops@retro.social
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-06-08 15:49
@whbboyd@infosec.exchange @ifixcoinops@retro.social I nerd-raged so hard at the deprecation of frames that I wrote several static site generators in XSLT. In the early 2000s. Long before Jekyll came along and the term “static site generator” had been coined to describe it.