Anil Dash wrote a really fun, really deep history of Markdown, the text markup language John Gruber created that has subsequently become totally ubiquitous online. Dash also argues that the idea behind Markdown, and the forces that made it huge, hold important lessons that the current tech industry — and AI companies in particular — could really stand to learn from.
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It’s very possible I’m the only person who didn’t know this, but just in case: you can go to the Clock app and set a timer, and then under “When Timer Ends,” instead of picking an alarm tone, scroll all the way down and set it to “Stop Playing.” System-wide sleep timer! As someone who sometimes likes to fall asleep listening to podcasts or The Office episodes, this is a game-changer. Thank you, five-year-old Reddit thread, for solving this for me.
In case you missed it over the holiday weekend, our friends over at MKBHD put together a cool explainer on transistors, semiconductors, Moore’s Law, and how remarkably tiny our electronics have become. It’s all useful info, but the production quality is just *chef’s kiss.* (The Epic Spaceman video Marques shouts out at the end is also very much worth a watch.)
