Jeff Atwood personal blog
Standard Markdown Is Now Common Markdown
Let me open with an apology to John Gruber for my previous blog post. We’ve been working on the Standard Markdown project for about two years now. We invited John Gruber, the original creator of Markdown, to join the project via email in November 2012, but never heard back.
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Web & FrontendSoftware Engineering2014
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Sep 4, 2014 | Standard Markdown Is Now Common Markdown by edavis | 263 | 220 |
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