In 2004, John Gruber released a tool called Markdown with a blog post that began, "I've written a text-to-HTML formatting tool called Markdown, which is now available for download." It was a quiet…
John Gruber — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
John Gruber has appeared on 2 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Vergecast. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What John said
“But the readability was more important to me than the write ability. That it should be that maybe the overriding goal of it is you should be able to print it out in markdown format and hand it to somebody who's never heard of markdown, never used a command line, and they can just read it and they would totally understand what you mean.”
— John Gruber
“It's taking the con... plain text is the technical standard. And there were a bunch of conventions... And I thought everybody should do it my way and use the asterisks. And that's really what Markdown has done, is that everybody now, when they decorate plain text, they do it my way.”
— John Gruber
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