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23rd August 2020

TIL Rendering Markdown with the GitHub Markdown API — I wanted to convert the Markdown used in my TILs to HTML, using the exact same configuration as GitHub does. GitHub has a whole load of custom extensions for things like tables and syntax highlighting (see [issue 17](https://github.com/simonw/til/issues/17)).

Posted 23rd August 2020 at 5:30 am

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