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Archive for August 27th, 2026

Anyone who knows where to find the actual source code of the Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange WYSIWYG editor? (it has a strikethrough bug)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/27

I edited an answer to [Wayback/Archive] git – View rendered output of a gist? – Stack Overflow¹ and it appears that Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange have introduced a WYSIWYG editor of which the help still points to the old Markdown editor.

[Wayback/Archive] Markdown Editing Help – Stack Overflow

The problem is that the new WYSIWYG editor generates Markdown that in part cannot be properly rendered by the Markdown question / answer viewer (for instance, strikethrough is emitted as by the WYSIWYG editor in Markdown as ˜˜strikethrough˜˜ but the viewer can only render <s>strikethrough</s>.

Since their meta sites are toxic as hell:

is there anyone that knows where to find the source code of the Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange  WYSIWYG editor?

Thanks!

From the links below, I doubt the StackExchange pagedown repository is the one as it has been unmaintained since 2012 and the WYSIWYG editor is still in beta: I would have expected bug fixes over time, but there aren’t. Or maybe that all is caused by the toxicity on their platform?

This was my queste for information and some of the links I found:

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Posted in Development, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Pingback, SocialMedia, Software Development, StackExchange, Stackoverflow | Leave a Comment »

I didn’t realise there were so many power supply models for MikroTik Routers and Wireless (via their Products page)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/27

Lot’s of power supplies on [Wayback/Archive] MikroTik Routers and Wireless – Products, most (except the internal ones) I listed below grouped by output voltage and amperage (and wattage which I rounded down).

I didn’t realise there were so many and that there basically is no consistent naming scheme.

24V

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Posted in Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, Power User, routers | Leave a Comment »