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My children are a fine example - they're teenagers now, and they have had more access to tech than most people (thanks to Dad [me!]). Yet they barely know how t
by deafpolygon 4y ago
My children are a fine example - they're teenagers now, and they have had more access to tech than most people (thanks to Dad [me!]). Yet they barely know how to do more than Word, and don't understand the concept of a text editor vs rich text editor vs word processor.
The problem isn't them, it's us.
Why DO we expect "normies", as it were, to understand Markdown, text editors and the holy war of Plain Text?
Why are we going backwards with our tooling?
- pooper 4y agoMy motivation for using markdown is simple: I can keep track of changes with git.
- neilalexander 4y agoWhich raises an interesting question: are you concerned with keeping track of changes or are you concerned with keeping track of changes _with git_? In my opinion this is where a lot of technical folk diverge from everyone else. Technical folk tend to become infatuated with their specific tools whereas most other people would be happy just to find their expectations met, and neither side really wants to understand or compromise with the other.