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Markdown pense-bête (collapsable)

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One source of truth (or how not to be tied to a publisher platform)

Meta: For gist.github to match your theme, you'll need to override css which is both tedious and brittle. I'm looking for a better solution.

Why does my blog stink?

For Christmas, I wanted a lot of features for my posts to be as enjoyable as possible to write and to consult:  Embedded editable and runnable code snippets.  Inline comments.  Private comments (for todo or links to private notes).  Translations.  Semantic tagging.  Versionning.  Ontologic search (that's not even a thing).  Minimal ressources consumption (both client and server side).  Accessibility.  Free vegan protein snacks (no vegan included). That being said, it's my first blog ever, and didn't want to inverse priorities and fall into the infinite stream of prerequisites. How is it called, already? So those things will be fixed incrementally over time. It was recommended by my postman to cure perfectionism. As a bonus, an unrelated quote: “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” — Peter Drucker

Example of CSS customization in Blogger.

Having slept too much, I wanted to have separators for my html tables. Google explains here how to add custom css. I introduced an arbitrary class name so it isn't applied to the blog theme itself, only inside posts when explicitly stated. table.withborder { border-collapse: collapse; } table.withborder td { border: 1px solid #624A93; } Then in the HTML editor simply annotate: <table class="withborder"> Implicit approach To avoid adding withborder  everywhere, leverage the class used by blogger (there is no guarantee it won't break at some point, though). div.post table td { border: 1px dashed RebeccaPurple; }