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   kepano (kepano@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:48:20 JST kepano

   Defuddle now has a website!

   This means you can use Defuddle anywhere to get the main content of a page in Markdown format.

   You can simply add "defuddle.md" before any URL, use it via curl, Skills, CLI, or add it to your app via NPM.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:48:14 JST Rich Felker

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     • Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky)

     @drahardja For the reverse transformation (HTML to MD), I think the smart thing to do would be collapsing any entity representable as a UTF-8 literal to that. So that it's actually legible as text, like MD is meant to be.

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     Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky) (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:48:15 JST Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky)

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     @mattwilcox@mstdn.socia GFM renders inline HTML entities in markdown docs as HTML entities. https://github.github.com/gfm/#entity-and-numeric-character-references

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     Steven Op de beeck (stevenodb@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:48:17 JST Steven Op de beeck

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     • Matt Wilcox

     @mattwilcox @kepano Then again, no reason for it not to handle   properly?

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     Matt Wilcox (mattwilcox@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:48:17 JST Matt Wilcox

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     • Steven Op de beeck

     @stevenodb TBH I'm not sure how markdown itself handles   - I'd expect a space being rendered, but then again I also find   is almost always some ancient (and crappy) text engine having spat them out when no-one actually wanted an nbsp. They're rarely intentional.

     I'm surprised to see them in my source - but I have had to massage that site over the years - and I suspect some tool somewhere got weird with it while I was scraping it for archiving years ago. @kepano

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     Matt Wilcox (mattwilcox@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:48:18 JST Matt Wilcox

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     @kepano Woaoaoaaaaaaaaaahhh... nbsp?! Why the hell has my source got a ton of nbsp's in it?!

     This has to be a side effect from scraping my old website to make the static version that's there now.

     Not a you issue - it's a problem for me!

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     Matt Wilcox (mattwilcox@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 08:48:20 JST Matt Wilcox

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     @kepano Very cool - what is with the strange treatment of missing spaces sometimes?

     eg https://defuddle.md/2015-2020.mattwilcox.net/musing/should-vs-want.html vs https://2015-2020.mattwilcox.net/musing/should-vs-want.html

     A lot of words are merged together?