The Only Two Markup Languages - gingerBill
The title is a bit misleading, there are of course more than two markup languages. The author says that only TeX and SGML families are proper arbitrary markup languages. Lightweight markups are not arbitrary, structured languages like YAML are not markups.
Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
Karl Voit with another banger.
Plaintext emails are slowly becoming an artifact of the past. Still, there’s a lot interesting things about plaintext emails. Including... plaintext-only formatting!
PmWiki | PmWiki / TextFormattingRules
Some good and bad choices here. Worth a look.
Why RichText facets in Bluesky
Today in "our novel form of NIH," why does Bluesky use the richtext facets system instead of Markdown?
bouncepaw's links
// slightly simplified
{
text: "Hello @bob.com",
facets: [
{feature: "mention", index: {start: 6, end: 14}}
]
} 
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