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                          1. I love how every couple of months someone is like 'this will be the thing that gets everyone using markdown on the web'
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                          I use markdown. I enjoy using markdown. But markdown is dumb. Markdown is an example of a thing that makes sense because you're used to it.
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                        Somewhere deep back in my Twitter I participated in an argument about trying to get all journalists to use markdown in newsrooms...
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                      Everyone was sure that this should happen and inevitably would happen. It was not going to happen. It will not happen.
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                    Markdown is a lovely construct for engineers, web enthusiasts and devs who have always written in a format something like that.
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                  If you attempt to explain it to someone who does not live in those categories you'll get blank stares because it doesn't make sense to them.
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                I mean, even as a dev, if you think about it long enough it starts having some real weird issues.
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              Like why to many popular markdown variants use the comment symbol to indicate headers? This is counterintuitive.
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            In the end, Markdown is the same thing as every product made for engineers by engineers with the belief it is actually for everyone...
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          It's just a tool you can use to prove how much smarter you are than someone else in the very narrow BS topic that only you care about.
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        *pushes up glasses and goes back to his markdown-powered blogging platform*
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      LOL, I'm not going to tag the person in, but I found the old tweet.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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    Going on 3 years and *surprise* Markdown hasn't saved journalism.
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      I'm not obnoxiously subtweeting, I just don't want to pull someone in from an old old tweet without their consent.
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        But yeah, Markdown didn't become the new typewriter of the Web2.0. I guess there's still time though.
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          Maybe Medium will figure out how to monetize using markd--hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I'm sorry. I can't keep a straight face.
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            People who write code for a living don't understand people who write words for a living chapter 3,258


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