Blahgd Markdown Support
This post has been written in Markdown.
This blog is running on software that I wrote a number of years ago after being inspired by David Graham who threw together his blog using a couple of shell scripts. I was using Wordpress, which was a behemoth, and I thought that writing my own would making blogging a more pleasant experience for me. (It did.)
I quickly learned that I needed to support more than one post format. At first, the formats used raw or raw-ish HTML. Eventually, I added "fmt 3" which is a LaTeX-like format. I still use that for my posts even though it has limitations that I want to address with "fmt 4".
Fast-forward a few years and Dan set up my software to run his blog. Unsurprisingly, he inquired about Markdown support. Since I have no use for it myself, I told him that patches are welcome :)
Fast-forward a few more years and Dan sent me a patch to add "fmt 5"—Markdown support via libmd4c. Thanks, Dan!
So, this post is kind of an announcement for whomever may care that blahgd now supports Markdown-formatted posts.
P.S. I will continue using "fmt 3" because I like it, but I thought it was fitting to make an exception and write this post in Markdown instead.