My PhD advisor, @karger: “If you do your thesis in Markdown, HTML, and CSS¹ it will be 10x the work!”
Me: “Yes, but it will entail 1/100th of the procrastination!”

Kids, …we were both right. 🥴

¹ as opposed to LaTeX, which is the gold standard in our field.

@leaverou @karger Congrats on your finishing! Sounds infinitely better than fighting MS Word every step of the way. Citations and results tables were particularly fragile. I don’t know how many times I grumbled that it’d be easier to code. And I barely knew how to code back then …