The org-mode talk at #churchofemacs introduced it as 'like markdown' instead of 'this huge todo app'. Much more helpful for getting started.
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Today I learnt that you can mix HTML inline in markdown! For example, the following is valid.
Foo <hr/>
I'd assumed that you needed HTML separately, like ``` blocks, but no: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#raw-html
Admittedly HTML is very restricted on most sites, but it's helpful for SSGs.
I've started keeping a list of particularly interesting bugs and patches that I've worked on: https://github.com/Wilfred/interesting-code
The time that I once removed *a single closing paren* in Emacs is still my favourite.
One cute feature of markdown I'd not noticed before: there's no syntax for images *without* a description (i.e. alt text).
https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#images