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Math on GitHub: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

nschloe.github.io published 2022-05-206 min read

Finally! On May 19, 2022, GitHub released one of its most requested features: Math support on Markdown! Many had been anticipating this for years, including myself, so much in fact that I wrote a browser extension to get there early. (xhub, it can do a few other things so check it out.)

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