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Markdown Is for Cowards
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Look, I get it. You want to feel productive without really knowing how anything works. Markdown is the avocado toast of markup languages—smoothed over, pre-digested, optimized for people who can’t be bothered to type a closing </p>. But here’s the truth: if your blog can’t handle a few angle brackets and an honest day’s <div>, what are we even doing here?
Raw HTML is pure, declarative joy. Markdown is training wheels for people who say “I like to write, not code,” as if writing and coding weren’t already the same neurotic impulse funneled into different text editors. It’s a crutch. It’s a TED Talk in markup form. It’s writing in Comic Sans when Times New Roman is free.
When you use raw HTML, you signal something important: I am willing to suffer for my content. I care enough to type out —. I live for the chaos of nesting <ul>s. I accept that misplacing a single </strong> could bring down the entire aesthetic of my site—and I press on anyway.
Markdown? Markdown is the guy who brings his own milk frother to the coffee shop and still asks if the Wi-Fi password is case-sensitive. It’s the shallow end of the web, chlorinated for safety, shallow enough that you can blog without wetting your knees. So join me, friends. Cast off the tildes and hashtags. Embrace the sharp edges. Learn to love the semicolon. HTML doesn’t coddle, and that’s what makes it beautiful. We’re building the web here. Not writing a note to your future self on a sticky pad.
Comments
This is art. Raw HTML is like brewing pour-over coffee without a scale—just instinct and trust. Love the vibes.
The sentence “Markdown is the avocado toast of markup languages” knocked the wind out of me. Still recovering. Bravo.
Okay but… isn’t the point of Markdown to not need to think about markup? I kind of love HTML but I get why people are lazy.
I've been saying this for years. I lost a
</div>once and my whole layout crumbled. Best thing that ever happened to me.I didn’t know I could be so angry about markup language until I read this. I feel awakened. Off to delete all my
.mdfiles.No. Just no. This kind of masochistic gatekeeping is exactly why people stop writing online. You’re not tough because you remembered to close a tag. You’re just making things harder for no reason. Markdown didn’t ruin the web—you’re doing that all on your own.
@gritfilter Counterpoint: HTML is punk rock. Markdown is a playlist curated by your algorithmically determined inner child.
@gritfilter Respectfully disagree. There’s something romantic about the rawness of HTML. Markdown feels like blogging on rails.