Markdown And Mongolia

How Markdown Took Over The World

Anil Dash | 9th January 2026

Admiring history of the simple, free text formatting language that underpins the vast majority of what is published on the internet today. Including the words you're reading right now. "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" (4,500 words)

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I Counted All Of The Yurts In Mongolia

Monroe Clinton | 17th June 2025

If visiting a country is not possible, exploring it via the satellite images on Google Maps can be the next best thing. This programmer got curious about Mongolia and ended up training a machine learning model to find out how many yurts there were in the whole country. Answer: 172,689. The yurt, or "ger", is still used as a temporary dwelling by rural Mongolians who have recently relocated to a city (4,000 words)