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Markdown Emoji: Why :tada: Isn't Markdown
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Markdown Emoji: Why :tada: Isn't Markdown

Markdown has no emoji syntax: not in CommonMark, not in GitHub's own GFM spec. See why :tada: breaks outside GitHub and which form renders everywhere.

Sep 13, 202629 days ago
Linktree vs Carrd: Only One Gets Your Domain
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Linktree vs Carrd: Only One Gets Your Domain

Linktree vs Carrd comes down to one thing: Carrd sells a custom domain for $19 a year, and Linktree's paid-features docs never mention domains at all.

Sep 12, 2026about 1 month ago
Stan Store Pricing: What $29 and $99 Really Cost
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Stan Store Pricing: What $29 and $99 Really Cost

Stan Store costs $29 or $99 a month. The real per-sale math with Stripe fees, when Creator Pro pays for itself, and when to skip the storefront entirely.

Sep 11, 2026about 1 month ago
Meta Tag Generator: Every Tag Your Page Needs
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Meta Tag Generator: Every Tag Your Page Needs

Generate title, description, canonical, Open Graph and Twitter Card tags from one form, plus the five mistakes that still break link previews.

Sep 10, 2026about 1 month ago
Bento.me Shut Down: Where Your Links Go Now
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Bento.me Shut Down: Where Your Links Go Now

Bento.me shut down on February 13, 2026, and every bento.me URL now redirects to Linktree's homepage — not your page. Here's what broke and how to fix it.

Sep 9, 2026about 1 month ago
Linktree vs Beacons: Which Fee Model Costs Less
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Linktree vs Beacons: Which Fee Model Costs Less

Beacons takes 9% of your sales until you pay $30/mo. Linktree charges by tier and publishes no fee number. Here's which model actually costs you less.

Sep 8, 2026about 1 month ago
Markdown Image Size: The Syntax That Doesn't Exist
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Markdown Image Size: The Syntax That Doesn't Exist

Markdown has no width syntax. See what GitHub, GitLab, Obsidian and Pandoc each accept, and the one HTML tag that resizes an image everywhere.

Sep 7, 2026about 1 month ago
Beacons Pricing: What the 9% Seller Fee Costs
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Beacons Pricing: What the 9% Seller Fee Costs

Beacons pricing runs $0 to $90/mo, but the 9% seller fee on Free and Creator is the real cost. See the tiers, the fee cliff, and break-even math.

Sep 6, 2026about 1 month ago
Markdown Code Block: Syntax, Languages, Nesting
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Markdown Code Block: Syntax, Languages, Nesting

A markdown code block is triple backticks plus a language identifier. Learn fences vs indentation, nesting, diff blocks, and what breaks where.

Sep 5, 2026about 1 month ago
Markdown Horizontal Line: Why Yours Became a Heading
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Markdown Horizontal Line: Why Yours Became a Heading

Three dashes should draw a line, but under a paragraph they build a heading instead. The setext trap, the blank-line fix, and where rules silently fail.

Sep 3, 2026about 1 month ago
Linktree Pricing: What Each Tier Actually Unlocks
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Linktree Pricing: What Each Tier Actually Unlocks

Linktree has four tiers and region-localized prices. Here's the feature ladder that decides which plan you need, and what the free plan quietly holds back.

Sep 2, 2026about 1 month ago
Markdown Center Text: What Works, What Gets Stripped
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Markdown Center Text: What Works, What Gets Stripped

Markdown has no centering syntax. Learn why align="center" survives GitHub's sanitizer, why style gets stripped, and the blank-line rule that breaks READMEs.

Sep 1, 2026about 1 month ago