I've recently started learning HTML "properly", and have realized just how large the gap is between its capabilities for expression semantics over a document, and Markdown's. In this video, I discuss three problems that Markdown's lack of semantic expressiveness causes when it is used as a front-end for HTML. These are, 1. Incorrect presentation due to lack of semantic granularity; you cannot tell "why" something was placed in italics, so changing the presentation of emphasized text becomes difficult. 2. The lack of semantic tags negatively affects screen readers and other non-visual user agents or accessibility tools. 3. These semantic tags could greatly improve the capabilities of search engines, were the consistently and correctly used. The core problem here is not site authoring tools, static site generators, etc. These all offer many important and useful features that do not cause any harm to the final product. However, the semantic mismatch between HTML and Markdown makes Markdown a poor web authoring system. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98HyxANQ1nE

Time for something different! We continue a short gameplay commentary of an old city builder game called Zeus. It's a Windows game, but here we are running it on Linux via Lutris. If you're interested in the game, it's readily available at Good Old Games, and you can find it here, https://www.gog.com/game/zeus_poseidon ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOI-m-Gig3k