A pair of tech celebrities crapped out an under specified markup language and the rest of SV ate it up.
Markdown isn’t good, and there were, and are, many more lightweight markup languages which are better.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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Is it decoupling content from presentation? I bet it's decoupling from presentation.
Which is why LaTeX is so popular for scientific papers.
Although I struggled to read the article.
Although I struggled to read the article.
It was so, so long.
Do they get paid by the minute they keep me on the page? Are they using my device to mine Bitcoin?
What the fuck is that?
Had to stop reading the article with that opening. Holy AI
To me it doesn't read as AI at all. It's a bit bloviating, but that is the style of a lot of blogs.
I appreciate you teaching me the word bloviating. 🙏 So satisfying to say, lol.