Norwegian guy, lives in Bergen but originally from Hammerfest, almost as far north you can get on the Norwegian mainland. I’m a big fan of *nix and open source and I’ve been using Linux exclusively since 1995.

I love Commonmark and I’ve implemented it into everything I write, Commonmark and Markdown is so unintrusive I can use it everywhere. I’ve always been fond of plain text, I hate to store text in binary files. As a result, I can read everything I’ve written the last 35 years without problems. Instead of using “office” programs when I write, I mostly use plain text and if it needs to be presentable in some way I’ve used XHTML or Docbook. In 2010 I discovered Markdown and fell in love with it, but because it was pretty unmaintained and the syntax was quite ambiguous I didn’t use it for much serious stuff.

That changed when Commonmark came around and I now use it for most of my writing, for example email (no HTML mail from me, Vim and Mutt ftw) and even Git commit messages. git log filtered through a small script looks wonderful.

So thanks a lot to all contributors for your great work and taste. I use cmark(1) every day and I love that it’s written in C, in my opinion the greatest programming language ever created. All hail Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan.

And of course, big thanks to John Gruber and Aaron Swartz, the inventors of Markdown.