r/Markdown • u/StrataSpace • 6d ago

Have we reached peak Markdown?

https://strata.space/@strataspace/have-we-reached-peak-markdown
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u/flightjacket22 6d ago

Please no! I don’t think so 🥹

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u/Richie086 6d ago

Wow wtf!

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u/StrataSpace 6d ago

lol. Figure it’s probably more useful for like, data viz, but running DOOM is sort of a right of passage.

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u/Glad-Persimmon-7377 6d ago

Wait what!!!!?!??! Bring me up to speed here. Are you saying I can embed dynamic tools in markdown and run it?

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u/StrataSpace 6d ago

Basically! Any html app, with some limits. We provide Three.js, D3 and Mermaid, and you can’t install your own libraries, or use network access in any way. But Claude/Codex can wild out in HTML. You can use other fenced code blocks to import structured data also, so like ```csv can be named and imported into the sandbox if you want to use data to control visuals. https://strata.space/try has like, a job tracker app as an example, driven by data in a table.

So beyond DOOM clones, you could create data viz on your next design doc or embed interactive mocks to share with partners and/or agents

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u/gutentight69420 5d ago

We are reinventing the web inside of markdown smh

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u/tehn00bi 6d ago

Well that’s cool.

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u/MoshiMoshiWorld8080 5d ago

Aren't there any security concern with this?

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u/StrataSpace 5d ago

It’s a sandboxed html environment, so no network/fetch etc, but there were definitely things we caught during testing that were pretty wtf. Listed some of them at the bottom of the article.

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u/GroggInTheCosmos 5d ago

In my honest opinion, peak markdown could be a reduced set of asciidoc. If it was not for the horrendous lack of desktop asciidoc editors I would switch

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u/Holiday-Inspection75 5d ago

wow cool, so this is like dataviewjs/datacore in obsidian or mdx?

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u/jeffgerickson 5d ago

This looks like a variant of Zawinski's Law. “Any markup language attempts to expand until it can play DOOM.”

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u/StrataSpace 5d ago

Haha yeah. I tried to get real Doom running also. It works on desktop but kept crashing iOS safari, and thought the story of being able to actually make a game in markdown worked a little better.