There is no mention of “microblog” on the page. If you’re implying “a blog platform for hackers” means ‘hackers’ don’t need proper tools for providing a semantic blogging, then ‘hackers’ need to get better at communication because these sorts of features matter for accessibility and experience.

I think the 'hacker' aesthetic and mentality enforces limitations to keep things standard and quickly pareseable. Think man pages for people. Yet, the full power of html is there if you want it and don't mind doing the extra legwork. But such things are discouraged in favor of regularity and ease of production.

This is precisely what I expected when I first visited OP/TFA.

Then at that point, you might as well use Gemini or not render the document to HTML. I would expect to see more use of ASCII art and box model drawing from the Unicode blocks. The thing is this “hacker aesthetic” via Markdown from the GitHub RENDERME.md—because you can rarely read the plaintext anymore—is now percolating the use of the unsemantic elements to the general internet. I’m seeing misuse of blockquotes in the wild. I’m seeing manual table of content management in Markdown. The list continues. Because the context is HTML, one should probably try to follow the spec because this matters to screen readers and alternate browsers like the TUI as well as just general parsability for upstream and downstream tools.

this is a silly thing to over analyze. it's OK it you have a different definition /understanding. But I guess infinite pedantry is also part of the hacker aesthetic.