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standard.horse is neat but markdown still sucks

It autocompletes HTML tags but then doesn't render them, but which is weird

Kevin Marks
May 30, 20261 min read1 read

sing a markdown editor is super annoying as * means 3 different things. <b>bold</b> and it's overriding regular HTML tags.

The point of markdown was shortcuts for some html tags that made sense as ascii plaintext, but letting through other HTML tags as well. Whatever this is doing is wrong.

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