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		giantrobot on July 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shell Script RSS Publishing I guess could also have a markup format that let you turn an arbitrary bit of text to a link to a URI. That markup could itself just be type-able plain text characters so the whole document was plain text at a low level. Oh...

CaptainFever on July 17, 2023 [–]

HTML degrades to plain text less gracefully than Markdown. In general, it is also far more complex.

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