afcool83 6 hours ago

I would call markdown an “85% solution”. Not disparaging it at all by calling it that either.

The ease of use it brings is incredibly valuable and, if it gets you rapidly through 85% of what you need done (and leaves you in a good spot to take on the remaining 15%) then it’s the right tool to have used in that moment.

Off the shelf seasoning mixes are another great example. 85% of the solution (a tasty meal) in a bottle that leaves you to focus on the remaining 15% (cooking the rest of the meal)

mubou 6 hours ago

Can you link the repo so we can see? This link doesn't really appear to have anything to do with markdown.

  • GarethX 6 hours ago

    Markdown was the inspiration: easy to scan, consistent, doesn't support fluff, etc. Trying to avoid many of the typical SaaS site tropes that get in the way.

    • mubou 6 hours ago

      Oh, my bad, thought you meant it was built in markdown, like MDX or something.

      I wish you could do all this in plain markdown; putting things side-by-side in a github readme can be tricky. Have to resort to sub/superscript hacks just to make image captions.

      Anyway, looks nice.