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  • verstra@programming.devtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devMarkdown everywhere
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    10 months ago

    This is the way.

    Almost completely pure way of storing ideas. With this I mean that you don’t store unnecessary data such as “background should be white” or “left page margin is 1.3cm”. It’s just text. What’s important is what it says + minimal markup.

    Presentation is left to the reader’s client. Do you want dark mode? Get a markdown editor/reader that supports it. Do you want serif font? Again, that’s client’s choice and not part of the document.

    I wish browsers would support markdown out of the box, so you could open https://example.com/some-post.md





  • I strongly believe that code formatting does not hold any information and that because of it, compilers should reject non-normalized code, saying “run a formatter first”. We have the tooling for most of the languages to make this absolutely painless, remove all head scratching of “what the hell is up with this code style” and just focus of the semantics. I believe that you should be allowed to produce code abominations like this code sample and have it auto-formatted into the code style that everyone can easily interpret.