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		troad 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Blog with Raw HTML I don't know what I'm more offended by, the implication that writing 'raw' HTML is some noteworthy retro skill, or the fact the blog isn't actually written in raw HTML at all, but in Markdown.

sleazebreeze 10 months ago | [–]

I had the same thought. 72kb of JS dependencies from some CDN to render that "raw HTML". If you are going to claim to be a purist, try actually being one first.

cookedcode 10 months ago | [–]

Apparently "raw HTML" now means "just enough HTML to load a Markdown renderer into a JavaScript virtual machine". Amazing.

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