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Why writers use platforms
Platforms offer a number of benefits over self-hosting your writing. One is the network effect. Us writers, the little parasites we are, latch onto a big whale platform and benefit from its marketing department.
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How to get the system's EOL character with Deno
If you're looking for a predefined function to return the system's end-of-line (EOL) value in Deno's standard library, you'll be disappointed. Luckily, it's possible to write your own in a pretty small function.