2023-W08 Wendland Weekly
This week I read about Markdown, as I was using Obsidian quite a lot but realised I didn’t fully grasp the concept of what is was built upon. I did this by reading a markdown guide which was simplistic but useful.
As well as rehashing the syntax I already knew, I discovered new stuff I didn’t know.
- You can put a foot note in using [^linking text] to the footnote1,
- You can also align tables nicely using the ”:”, and
- When numbering items, in an ordered list the numbers you write don’t matter! Though I also discovered some Markdown syntax doesn’t work in Obsidian such as superscript, subscript, definitions, emojis, and heading id’s, though I think this is because Obsidian has other methods to achieve the same results.
I decided to look up what a Markup Language is. Essentially a method to declare how text is rendered, though it does get a bit philosophical about the difference between it and a Programming Language. There is a difference though, which is Markup Language is a Declarative Language whereas a Programming Language is an Imperative Language. Essentially, one say what you want to be whereas the other you tell the computer how to get there. Which is interesting as lots of DevOps is trying to be a Declarative Language such as Kubernetes and Terraform.
Well that is it peeps, I managed to do the first Wendland Weekly. May this habit stay with me!
Questions left unsolved
- Do I really understand all the Obsidian syntax?
- What is the difference between a Markup Language and things like JSON and YAML?
Footnotes
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