Today is my birthday, and it began with me putting the finishing touches on a custom markup language for the site: hVmark v1

It all began with a simple question: What if the site had Markdown functionality? Don't get me wrong: I love HTML, but simpler text formatting never killed anyone.
At least...
I don't think...

Anyway, if we were gonna go down that road, of course implementing the spec would be pretty straight-forward. But, I mean... we're already Doin' The Most when it comes to this site; if we're aiming for a simpler markup language for posts, it's gotta be designed in-house.

Everything               .
What ever could go wrong ?

Regardless, I started with the formatting tags and general HTML that I regularly use for posts and went from there. After some late nights and bug chasing, we're at version 1, which I've wasted no time in deploying.

Does it work?
You tell me. This post is written in hVmark v1:

Life has many doors, Ed-boy...

It works in tandem with the existing auto-formatting for paragraphs in posts. As you can see, there's basic text markers. The order of operations is:

• Bold
• Italics
• Strike
• Underline

Placement IS Important

Doing the heavy lifting for images and links are the anchors @ and fangs ^^. Syntax depends on what they're being used for, and it's proving itself to be a very versatile system.

Side Note: I also recently created a /now page; I'm in the nownownow directory and everything. Check it out.

For right now, HTML use on the same line will _break formatting_.

This is on purpose; once hVmark matures a bit more, functionality to render text alongside HTML will be deployed.
But for now...
It's both opinionated and greedy.

// Future Goals

• Implement lists.
  Oh shit, nevermind. This totally works.
• Tighten design.
• Possibly rewrite entire website in hVmark.

While I'm sure there are bugs to squish and improvements that could be made, I'm happy with v1 and will obviously be using it in posts going forward. Of course, I made this for me, but I'll soon publish this on my GitHub for any interested parties.

And now, to play us out...
Stay Tuned For More Bullshit