Nice episode, many little things I didn't know about markdown.

While I prefer ReStructuredText* over markdown (just like I prefer Mercurial/Python/Golang over Git/Perl/Java) I have to use it on Gitlab and Github.
So like I said, very useful.

*) and rst2pdf works w/o LaTeX ;)

PS: one of the words you were looking for is WYSIWYG - "what you see is what you get"