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 title: A brief rant about Markdown and why it's the worst
 created: 2021-02-01
-updated: 2021-02-01
+updated: 2021-03-16
 status: budding
 tags:
     - writing
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 Markdown can format pure text simply and anything beyond that becomes much more challenging to visually parse.
 
-Markdown if for people without object-permanence 
+Today's most popular tools for writing in markdown abstract away the convoluted syntax behind a nice UI while still relying on a 'source of truth' `.md` file. [^1] This is a [File over app](https://stephango.com/file-over-app) philosophy and the basest form of interop.
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+Look at the most popular writing tool on the planet, **Word**. Love it or hate it there's a certain ease of use to it. Markdown is *scary* to most non-tech people
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+[^1]: Yes I acknowledge the irony in complaining about markdown on a statically generated site based on markdown files. Believe me I'm no happier about it than you. Sometimes you've got to play in the mud to eat from the trough.