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Cake day: February 18th, 2025

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  • The inventors of Markdown thought they would do something devastatingly clever and eat newlines if the next line has content. That way, if you’re writing Markdown in the Stone Age and your editor doesn’t support soft-wrap (it’s a stone tablet), you can do your own soft-wrap and Markdown will “helpfully” eat all the newlines (unless there are two or more).

    Of course this has done nothing to help and instead caused chaos and confusion for anyone non-technical. Very clever