What are you doing this week?

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The author proposes a new extensible layer for Markdown that recovers 80% of its convenient syntax while allowing for custom extensions to support various use cases.

<p>What are you doing this week? Feel free to share!</p> <p>Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.</p>
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# What are you doing this week? Source: [https://lobste.rs/s/vb1jgu/what_are_you_doing_this_week](https://lobste.rs/s/vb1jgu/what_are_you_doing_this_week) If you're interested I'd love to talk about it\. I had a spec written but I've made a number of significant changes so I'm not publishing that one until I update it all again\. My email is in my profile if you'd like to reach out\. The short idea is to recover 80% of Markdown's convenient, appealing surface syntax by layering it on top of an extensible, general purpose layer\. Whenever the shorthands work, they're pretty and accessible\. Whenever they're too simple, the "longhand" format is right there \(and intermixes freely\)\. And then next time you're wondering if you can somehow contort or hack Markdown to make it work for your blog/obsidian clone/task management tool/book/knowledgebase/bibliography/etc you can instead define a simple Zd extension that supports your features and is already compatible with parsers/lsps/html generators/etc\.

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