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1. cthos 🐱 Mastodon 5 min later

   @zachleat Some parsers can't even handle that.

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 10 min later

      @cthos what

      1. cthos 🐱 Mastodon 12 min later

         @zachleat That example of markdown. Just doesn't render a link.

         1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 25 min later

            @cthos oh, huh — I haven’t encountered that!

            1. cthos 🐱 Mastodon 28 min later

               @zachleat I can't remember where I ran into that, markdown-it handles it fine, but yeah, anyhow I just use HTML for safety now. 😅

2. Ethan Marcotte Mastodon 9 min later

   @zachleat i have been using markdown for [redacted] years, and i STILL need to look up the syntax for images like 60% of the time

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 10 min later

      @beep I think it’s `<img src alt>` now

      1. Ethan Marcotte Mastodon 13 min later

         @zachleat the srcset syntax approaches the complexity of a single emacs command

         1. Ethan Marcotte Mastodon 13 min later

            @zachleat i suppose this jokes works for markdown AND html whoops dm fai

            1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 26 min later

               @beep my kids eat emacs all the time, it’s convenient to just throw one in the microwave and have instant access to… wait

               1. Ethan Marcotte Mastodon 33 min later

                  @zachleat i’ve always been more of a vimicelli fan mysel…wait

                  1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 54 min later

                     @beep what MAC address do french farmers deliver metaverse manure to when AI emacron raises the retirement age

         2. Gabriel N Mastodon 47 min later

            @beep @zachleat this happens to me with Emmet when autocompleting code. I do have to go back to read the docs

   2. Roel Nieskens Mastodon 15 min later

      @beep @zachleat You forgot to put a link in parenthesis after [redacted] *pushes glasses up*

      1. Roel Nieskens Mastodon 16 min later

         @beep @zachleat

         -signed, Cap. Obvious

         1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 27 min later

            @pixelambacht @beep [oh no]

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   4. Random Geek Mastodon 37 min later

      @beep @zachleat That's why a) I don't like Markdown; and b) I stick to a simplified core syntax.

      Which of course does not overlap 100% with CommonMark.

3. Juho Vepsäläinen Bluesky 13 min later

   Any sufficiently complex markup language becomes a regex.

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 14 min later

      HTML would never

4. Chris Ferdinandi Mastodon 14 min later

   @zachleat Yea, I absolutely type my images as plain old HTML in my markdown because of this shit.

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6. Darby M. Dixon III Mastodon 49 min later

   @zachleat don't need images in markdown when you can just use a thousand words instead

   1. cthos 🐱 Mastodon 54 min later

      @darby3 @zachleat "use this one simple trick to increase your word count"

   2. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 55 min later

      @darby3 I like this mindset

7. Adële 🐁! Mastodon 1 hr later

   @zachleat yes, I agree, adding link to an image is possible but not very easy to do. It is the limit of MD. But, for simple text, without image, #Markdown stays magic! 🙂​

8. Ste Grainer Mastodon 3 hr later

   @zachleat I just never use images in markdown … something in my brain can never remember the format. Links, fine. Images, have to look it up every time so I just stopped trying.

9. Evan Boehs Bluesky 5 hr later

   Or go my route and add domain specific markup for every imaginable challenge

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 5 hr later

      oh no