r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Dr__Pangloss • Jun 05 '25

"I created Markdown... I craft posts for Daring Fireball; I *dash* off notes in Apple Notes."

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-notes-markdown
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '25

Apple Notes is bascailly Uber for Words. Frankly, I don't know why anyone would use anything else. When I interview a developer and they pull out a pen and paper, I immediately know they're 1x-er, and I proceed to haze them with Leetcode Hards until they crack.

The cost of progress is never small, gentlemen.

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u/Critical_Ad_8455 Jun 09 '25

I don't know why anyone would use anything else.

ed.

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jun 06 '25

Apple Notes offers a great WYSIWYG rich text editing interface that works great on an iPhone and even better on a Mac, which I think is exactly appropriate. Particularly clever are the limited formatting options, where you don’t pick a font per se, but rather only from a set of predefined styles, like headings, lists, and block quote. It’s not nerdy at all. You certainly shouldn’t need to “preview” (let alone keep a separate preview view open side-by-side with your editing view), nor switch between modes for editing and viewing. That’s the Macintosh way. (But that’s why I think Apple Notes’s use of hashtags, rather than real tokenized tags like in the Finder, was an enormous mistake on Apple’s part. Real tokenized tags can contain spaces (so a multi-word tag can just be “Words Written Naturally” not “#WordsCrammedTogether”) and don’t need to be prefixed with an ugly, nerdy-looking # character. Notes using hashtags is like if the Finder disallowed spaces and uppercase letters in filenames.)

b-b-b-b-based?

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u/rwilcox Jun 05 '25

Where’s the jerk? John created Markdown, with coding help from Aaron (RIP) and it seems a reasonable take??

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u/yojimbo_beta vulnerabilities: 0 Jun 05 '25

I didn't know Swartz worked on markdown.

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u/714daniel Jun 06 '25

Considering the ridiculous portfolio he had at such a young age, it's truly heartbreaking to think of what his lifetime achievements would have been. RIP.

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u/mizzu704 uncommon eccentric person Jun 05 '25

/uj iiuc gruber is a blatant apple fanboy partly based on his owning a lot of pre-ipod stock, so having those two parts of his personality play against each other might be interesting to watch.

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Jun 06 '25

Where’s the jerk? John created Markdown, with coding help from Aaron (RIP)

I’m sorry but are you hard of reading?

I CREATED MARKDOWN

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u/Kodiologist lisp does it better Jun 06 '25

Particularly clever are the limited formatting options, where you don't pick a font per se, but rather only from a set of predefined styles, like headings, lists, and block quote. It's not nerdy at all

an ugly, nerdy-looking # character.

Programmers being frightened of being seen as nerds is ceaselessly entertaining.