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There are a couple I have in mind. Like many techies, I am a huge fan of RSS for content distribution and XMPP for federated communication.

The really niche one I like is S-expressions as a data format and configuration in place of json, yaml, toml, etc.

I am a big fan of Plaintext formats, although I wish markdown had a few more features like tables.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (6 children)

GRPC for building APIs instead of REST. Type safety makes life easier

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I also pick this guy's IRC

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Org-mode is like md but has tables and more. Emacs will even run computation as a party of interpretation. GitHub accepts it in place of markdown.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Would you say it's worth considering in place of markdown for a non-emacs user? (I am curious to try emacs but I may not get to it anytime soon)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

org-mode is awesome for many reasons, but the similarities/overlap with markdown are an incidental benefit. I wouldn't learn org-mode for that reason, however there are many other good ones that make it worthwhile. I've been using it for years for my own project management, tasks tracking, notes and many other things - it's one of those rare tools that can do many things incredibly well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't say that it is, no.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Haha appreciate the honesty :)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This isn't exactly what you asked, but our URI/URL schema is basically a bunch of missed opportunities, and I wish it was better designed.

Ok so it starts off with the scheme name, which makes sense. http: or ftp: or even tel:

But then it goes into the domain name system, which suffers from the problem that the root, then top level domain, then domain, then progressively smaller subdomains, go right to left. www.example.com requires the system look up the root domain, to see who manages the .com tld, then who owns example.com, then a lookup of the www subdomain. Then, if there needs to be a port number specified, that goes after the domain name, right next to the implied root domain. Then the rest of the URL, by default, goes left to right in decreasing order of significance. It's just a weird mismatch, and would make a ton more sense if it were all left to right, including the domain name.

Then don't get me started about how the www subdomain itself no longer makes sense. I get that the system was designed long before HTTP and the WWW took over the internet as basically the default, but if we had known that in advance it would've made sense to not try to push www in front of all website domains throughout the 90"s and early 2000's.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Then don’t get me started about how the www subdomain itself no longer makes sense. I get that the system was designed long before HTTP and the WWW took over the internet as basically the default, but if we had known that in advance it would’ve made sense to not try to push www in front of all website domains throughout the 90"s and early 2000’s.

I have never understood why you can delegate a subdomain but not the root domain, I doubt it was a technical issue because they added support for it recently via SVCB records (But maybe technical concerns were actually fixed in the decades since)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This is actually exactly what I asked for, thank you!!

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