Dendrobatus Azureus @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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I've just finished reading this blog post regarding the markdown Syntax by RL Dane

He is also given a brief history of the Computing Hardware and software that he has used ever since he was a little Padawan.

The blog post is just a few minutes to read and you shall learn something good from it.

TLDR is; use {smackdown} markdown for everything you write that needs formatting and be truly platform independent in your formatted text creation.

When you truly understand what he means, it is literal total freedom with formatted text and you don't even need to learn tex or LaTeX, since you will not be writing a book.

When you do that you will have to read my posts regarding tex and LaTeX, and those are blog posts I haven't released.

For me markdown has been important, ever since I was working on waffle bulletin boards many many decades ago

*Bold* _underline_ /italic/ was the syntax that we used back then.

Our waffle bulletin board had a special text formatting routine which Made these codes look like they were actually bold underline and italic when we were viewing those emails.

On the channel on Dalnet we also had a formatting routines for our clients, mine was AmIRC that converted these codes in a similar fashion.

So in true Essence markdown has been with us for a very very long time; we just didn't call it markdown then but we made sure that our text formatting had nothing to do with the computer platform we happen to be typing on.

rldane.space/why-i-love-markdo

@rl_daneR.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

The screencap shows a mobile device screen displaying a blog post titled "Why I Love Markdown" by R.L. Dane, dated Friday, 11 April 2025. The post begins with a brief introduction about Markdown, followed by a humorous anecdote about the author's experience with early computers. The text is presented in a dark theme with blue and white text, and the author's name is displayed in a blue banner at the top. The post's content is partially visible, with the first paragraph discussing the author's fondness for Markdown and a brief history of writing in the digital age. The author mentions having ADHD and humorously notes their tendency to include unnecessary details. The post also includes a personal anecdote about the author's first computer, an Apple rented by their mother for a university computer class, where they only wrote BASIC programs. The bottom of the screen shows a URL bar with the address "rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown" and a notification count of 37. The device's status bar at the top shows the time as 05:32, the battery level at 93%, and the temperature at 24°C. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.277 Wh
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