The Woes of Writing Markdown (opens in new tab)

This is a blog post about technical considerations of markup languages — and I’m writing it on a site I built myself. If there’s an impulse more codified and vacuous than artists waxing poetic about the power of creativity, it’s programmers blogging about how their blogs work. In the years I’ve been erecting this monolith I’ve resisted that siren, but for once, I’ll indulge.