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Markdown Is Not HTML, But It Was Born to Become It

Markdown Is Not HTML, But It Was Born to Become It Every README, every GitHub issue, every docs page you have ever written in Markdown ends up as HTML. That is not an accident.

  • Markdown converts cleanly to HTML
  • Created by John Gruber in 2004
  • GitHub Flavored Markdown adds tables, task lists, autolinks

I made ER diagrams with the fewest line crossings, and proved it

I was modelling the ER diagram for a new project, and it got messy quickly once I had to share it with other people. Lines crossed everywhere, and nobody could follow which table pointed where.

  • Author developed ER diagram layout tool called erlayout
  • Tool minimizes line crossings and proves optimality
  • Demonstrated 2 crossings for Sakila database vs 8 standard

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