Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish


The internet made our personal punctuation preferences public, and brought with it a different set of priorities: writing needs to be intuitive, easy to create, and practically as fast as thinking or speaking. We drew these requirements together to create a system of typographical tone of voice.
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Fireside Chat: AI-Empowered Work With Lane Shackleton, Coda’s CPO
Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosiaproductschool.com
While it has never been easier for writers to share their ideas online, current publishing tools largely support only static authoring and do not take full advantage of the fact that the web is a dynamic medium.