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Aten Design Group
Company blog · atendesigngroup.com/blogdesignbusiness
Aten Design Group is the company blog at atendesigngroup.com, writing about design and business. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers cite this post as an account of programmers assuming non-programmers want WYSIWYG, when they actually preferred Markdown once they tried it. Only one comment mentions it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
This is the miracle of Markdown: everyone basically already knows it. I have read more than one story like this http://atendesigngroup.com/blog/what-it-not-what-it-looks where programmers thought Of course, these naive non-programmers will want WYSIWYG -- but in fact they preferred Markdown once they found it.
Comment linking /blog/what-it-not-what-it-looks
on “Ask HN: A simple wiki which supports Markdown syntax?”Submitted An Introduction to Containers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cage Match: Developers vs Project Managers as a story · 1 points
HN discussion