link markdown convention and plugging in a usb are identical in the sense that i never do it right the first time
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in reply to @sylvie's post:
(me directly opposing the wording in this post) i remember this by thinking about how using [square brackets] in text is way less common than (parentheses) so that's what surrounds the text because (maybe) it was designed that way to prevent false positives. and then i remember the url comes second because . . . . uh . . . . yeah
the way I remember it is it's as if the url is a parenthetical. like: here's what I'm talking about (and here's the link)
in reply to @aidan's post:
this suggests that there is a markdown-c dialect where square brackets perform every formatting function, but they may or may not work depending on the phase of the moon
intrinsic knowledge of markdown rules is my consolation prize for spending a decade on reddit
<a href="url">link text</a> is what I exclusively use, and works here =) (I had to type out the "ampersand-lowercaseL-lowercaseT-semicolon" convention for the symbols in order to make it appear properly in comments) =)
I've started just writing HTML anchor tags, I always remember how those work.