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Off-topic: this post, like other posts on the author's blog, is written in Markdown. But rendered inside <pre> tags. Seems a little odd considering the site also uses regular Serif fonts for the title / meta.

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This is done explicitly, for the reader to have the same feeling as opening a Markdown file with vim or Emacs.

why not just deliver it as text/plain then? would save a little bit of overhead.

The blog has the ability to embed images (ASCII graphs have their limits), moreover I want to provide a readable font, spacing, ...

I think you have to decide between providing a good web experience (readable font/spacing/images) and making readers feel like they are in Vim/emacs.

That said, it was still a good read. Thank you for the time and effort you put into Redis.

I agree, the current text is not very readable, but imagine it served raw as txt... Btw soon or later I'll change it with something else indeed. Need to find the time, also to convert the old posts.

Standard Notes, combined with their "advanced Markdown editor" extension, has a middle ground I think works really well, they render the Markdown formatting characters, as well as applying the formatting itself.

Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/KKbFXbD.png

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