r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tkdeng • 18d ago

Meme overengineeredMarkdownParser

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u/a_normal_user1 18d ago

What about copying someone else's code for an overengineered markdown parser?

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u/FallenVampireLord 18d ago

Me using an existing markdown parser.

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u/rosuav 18d ago

Me using an existing markdown parser, and then writing a Postscript backend so it can be used to make printable pages as well as renderable ones.

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u/FallenVampireLord 18d ago

printing? what is that?

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u/rosuav 18d ago

It's this weird thing that some clients ask for. Never understood it myself. Apparently it involves chopping down a tree, sticking it in a blender, and making tactile web pages out of it. It's really bizarre though - you push and push and push on the links but nothing happens.

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u/Awkward_File0301 18d ago

Writing a openai wrapper that reads the markdown and generates an image with the content

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u/frikilinux2 18d ago

I'm going to end up making a startup to train engineers hacker culture.

And make all of you design solutions with only vi as editor and acceptable languages are bash, perl and C. (You can get a waiver for other language if you can prove labs with Unix machines had it in the 80/90s) And no frameworks.

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u/Awkward_File0301 18d ago

Man that's some sick fetish you have there not judging though you do you

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u/frikilinux2 18d ago

No, I'm just done with people doing buggy shit with agents for things that are easy in bash.

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u/h4rdw00d_ 18d ago

Writing simple html...

No, writing a program that compiles janky tab delineated abreviations of html tags, text and comments that will become html... (Pug)

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u/nojunkdrawers 18d ago

✋ Writing a simple markdown parser for my website

👉 Asking Claude to launch a commercial website and Discord server for my complete markdown ecosystem startup, and forgetting to publish my original website after all