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Is it symbolic of the Palo Alto area/ Stanford? Have always wondered why this image was chosen. Suits the site very well by the way!

Textile, markdown, haml, lisp dsl, HTML, home rolled. What's the prefered syntax for writing docs? I'm writing a basic website and am spending way too much time thinking about this!

I prefer to code in python and have been meaning to try clojure. I'd like a python solution. I've been thinking of rolling my own - I don't need to worry about nesting. I like the simple approach of http///John.freml.in which splits text to paragraphs and uses HTML for the rest. All I'd like to add would be simple headers and anchors.

Any suggestions?

Alternatively - what syntax would you like to see on HN?

Who was the guy on here that kept a blog of a house in detroit he was doing up? Followed it with interest but have lost the link.

I've been finding a need for a hosted shell lately. Does anyone have any recommendations? Have the following requirements:

cron public www cgi-bin (would be nice not really required) python ruby emacs

I've had a search and to my surprise haven't seen this discussion so thought it could be interesting. I had one a long time ago when Linux boxes were not so common and I wanted ad free hosting.