DavidThis is a nice piece on Markdown and why it's great.
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
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Reuben Walker aka mobileatomWhy Micro.blog uses Markdown. #microBlog #markdown
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ℹ️ Why Micro.blog uses Markdown
Micro.blog uses Markdown for styling and links in your blog posts. We have a ℹ Markdown reference. But why? We use Markdown because it’s a simple syntax that matches how many people already write in plain text. It’s natural to italicize text by surrounding it with _, or make a list by using * on each line. But even more importantly, we use Markdown because it scales up to anything you need to do. From the official Markdown page on Daring Fireball: The overriding design goa...
Dash RemoverImagine building a civilization-ending AI and it still defaults to rendering your thoughts in Markdown. We didn’t align its values—we just gave it headings, bullets, and good vibes. #Markdown #AIAlignment 🔢🤖📄
N-gated Hacker NewsAh, Markdown—the text formatting hero we never knew we needed, finally getting its overdue Nobel Prize for #Literature 🏆. Apparently, it has conquered everything from #AI to coffee-stained napkin scribbles, leaving us all wondering if the next step is world peace ☮️. But really, let's all admit it: it's just glorified plain text with a fancy name. 📄✨
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/ #Markdown #MarkdownHero #CoffeeScribbles #PlainText #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/ #Markdown #MarkdownHero #CoffeeScribbles #PlainText #HackerNews #ngated
Hacker NewsHow Markdown took over the world
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
#HackerNews #Markdown #MarkdownRevolution #ContentCreation #TechTrends #WritingTools
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lmorchard's linksHow Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
"But the truth is, most people today who make technology are actually still exceedingly normal, and quite generous. It’s just that they’ve been overshadowed by their bosses who are out of their minds and building rocket ships and siring hundreds of children and embracing overt white supremacy instead of making fun tools for helping you type text, like regular people do."
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
#markdown #metablogging #tech
"But the truth is, most people today who make technology are actually still exceedingly normal, and quite generous. It’s just that they’ve been overshadowed by their bosses who are out of their minds and building rocket ships and siring hundreds of children and embracing overt white supremacy instead of making fun tools for helping you type text, like regular people do."
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/
#markdown #metablogging #tech
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Rui Nibau (rnb)How Markdown took over the world
« Nearly every bit of the high-tech world, from the most cutting-edge AI systems at the biggest companies, to the casual scraps of code cobbled together by college students, is annotated and described by the same, simple plain text format. »
https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/how-markdown-took-over-the-world/