> Undoubtedly, as Markdown became more popular, someone else would have pointed out this problem. Gruber himself would have been annoyed by it if he ever needed to write a code block with backslashes in it.
People are overreacting to a tongue-in-cheek post. I doubt the author takes himself too seriously with all of this.
But the rest comes off like mock humility because there really wasn't any information of relevance to anyone but the author.
Had the article been about the importance of user engagement in open source projects and then used his personal experience to underscore the point, then the article is really about raising awareness and might be something of utility to a reader. This article, however, just reads like me, me, me.
Heck, what is the purpose of my comment?