John Gruber

And that's really what Markdown has done, is that everybody now, when they decorate plain text, they do it my way.

And it's a convention more than a syntax.

And all of the popular flavors of Markdown all follow the main conventions.

I had to write the original, it's not even a parser, but the original series of regular expressions that turns Markdown into HTML.

And I was ruthless on myself by only making it what I wanted to see and write, no matter how hard it was for me to make it the conversion.

But really, ultimately, it's a convention or a series of conventions for how you do things.

And those conventions are like everywhere now.

And I love it.

But that's the thing.

That's all we ever have, right?

No phone call and unfortunately no royalty check.

That may be the real bummer here.

I guess I'm, it's, it's like, it's surprising and I get, and I'll get more of once this episode comes out.

Sure.

And I welcome it.

I do.

I've gotten hundreds, hundreds of emails and DMs over the last, especially the last six months or so from people saying exactly what you just said there, David, like, how does it feel that it's like the lingua franca of like this huge new groundbreaking breakthrough technology?

Yeah.

Weird, a little gratifying.

And while I don't profess to be an expert on LLMs, I understand them well enough that I'm not surprised because they're pattern matching and pattern predicting based on a corpus of...