[🔗 My morning’s peruse of my RSS feeds was ‘chokka’ with great @gruber words](https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/10/john-gruber-at-daring-fireball.html) … and then ‘other people’ writing about ‘great @gruber’

This is the latter from 🔗 Anil Dash

Not about Gruber per se - all about Markdown - but in so many ways written as a dedication to JG and a really great primer/history on it. Well worth a read.

Final paragraph

The trillion-dollar AI industry’s system for controlling their most advanced platforms is a plain text format one guy made up for his blog and then bounced off of a 17-year-old kid before sharing it with the world for free.