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Dallas Marks

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I am a cloud and analytics architect, blogger and professional speaker. I live in southwest Ohio with my wife, three children, and hyperactive dachshund.

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Markdown was created by developer John Gruber in 2004. Its name is a playful twist on “markup” because its original purpose was to be a faster, easier way to generate HTML, a “markup” language. The original utility was written in Perl.

I became familiar with John Gruber and his Daring Fireball blog around 2006 or 2007 when I bought my first Macintosh, a Mac Mini. Annoyed by the criticism of Windows

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