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      • 'Name and address please, sir'
      • Addresses contain numbers
      • That's it

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    • Author: Johnny
    • Date: 2025-11-15
    • Link: jdcm.al/blog/0168

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    How to remember the Markdown link syntax

    In Markdown, a universally-handy text formatting language, you create a link like this:

    [Title of link](https://…)

    Easy enough, but there's a bunch to remember there. Which comes first, the title or the link? And which is in square brackets, which in regular brackets?

    Get any of those things wrong, and your link won't work.

    'Name and address please, sir'

    Let's do the stuff inside the brackets first. When you get pulled over by the cops you'd never be asked for your 'address and name', would you? Same here.1

    Name and address in that order.

    Addresses contain numbers

    Those regular brackets () live on the keys 9 and 0.

    What contains numbers? An address.

    What doesn't? Your name.2

    That's it

    [Johnny](90 Main St)

    Footnotes

    1. Yeah, yeah, you're innocent. Save it for the judge. ↩

    2. Unless you're this guy. ↩


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