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"If you want to get posh, have it use Jekyll"



The irony is too fine to get lost here, even though explaining it is a mood killer.

Its funny I also missed it on first reading, which tells me have far this has gone.

The web, internet, www, etc literally was a bunch of markup documents linking to each other. That is what a website was. Its even in the name of its language: Hyper Text Markup Language.

Wouldn't it be funny if browsers started rendering markdown and we got to re-create the original simplicity (and ambiguity) of the web this way.


> Wouldn't it be funny if browsers started rendering markdown and we got to re-create the original simplicity (and ambiguity) of the web this way.

We can start with browser plugins for rendering markdown.


Analyzing a laugh is like dissecting something in biology - it is dead before you start, and not many people want to do it. But yeah, I've bookmarked https://wiby.me/surprise recently, and it has been a good time-waster.




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