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[-] quicksand@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

One of the cofounders of Reddit. Killed himself. Here's his wiki. Aaron Swartz

[-] Querk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What an appropriate homage - linking to one of markdown's originator's Wikipedia page using markdown.

"In 2002 Aaron Swartz created atx and referred to it as "the true structured text format". Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004, with Swartz acting as beta tester ... Markdown: Swartz was a major contributor to John Gruber's Markdown,[249][250] a lightweight markup language for generating HTML, and author of its html2text translator. The syntax for Markdown was influenced by Swartz's earlier atx language (2002)" from wikipedia

[-] quicksand@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Oh wow holy shit that link thing worked

[-] quicksand@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Brackets for the words you want. Immediately followed by parentheses. I'm sure this confuses some British folk but that's a problem for another day

[-] Psythik@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

From a technical standpoint it irritates me that it's not the URL in brackets and the words in parenthesis. But I also got used to it over 10 years ago so it is what it is.

[-] quicksand@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm curious why it is technically wrong. My only knowledge of programming is Matlab and a Coursera course on Intro to Python, so I have no idea why it would matter one way or the other. What is the technical standpoint you are referencing?

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