It's been a long time since the Repubs were playing something other than the bully or obstructionist. Now the politics gets more complicated. This might be the moment when Repubs switch parties. The stars are lining up for that.#RSS was successful not because of the efforts of people on mail lists debating the merits of various formats. It happened because Netscape seeded the market with a few popular feeds. Blogging software supported the format, so all blogs had feeds. Then software developed that made it easy to use the feeds, and finally the mother of all news pubs, the NYT, jumped in and everyone else followed. With the benefit of hindsight, the mail list people thought was so important, wasn't. #
There's a reality distortion field around mail lists. You feel you have arrived at The Place where all decisions are made. Yet when you decide something then what next? Who wants to tell the subjects they have to change? ;-)#
- I wonder if anyone's thought about a way to add file-level metadata to a Markdown document. This just came up in a project I'm working on, but it's not the first time I've encountered it. #
- In Frontier's website framework, we used a # to delimit a value, something like: #
- #title "My Test Page" #
- We borrowed the idea from C on Unix in the 70s:#
- #include "mymacros.h"#
- We have the same thing in HTML and OPML, in the <head> section:#
- <title>My Test Page</title>#
- The directives are not part of the rendering. You don't see them when you read the document. But the values are available to software processing the document.#
- It seems since we're in The Age of JSON, something in JSON, delimited by a # might be appropriate? #
- I started a thread on this on the Scripting News repo.#