Not everyone who gives birth embraces the word, for a number of reasons. Sometimes people have surrogates give birth. Sometimes moms and dads adopt and don't give birth. Sometimes people who give birth don't identify as women. I know people in many of these groups so I tried to write in an inclusive way. It's not that you can't use the word mother! I have a mother. I'm married to a mother. And no one is telling you what you can and can't say! _I_ just chose to use broader language. The amount of weird comments about it is weird IMO.
Not saying it hasn’t worked out for you (kudos if it has!), but being part of a Facebook group with 80k+ participants who regret being parents (as a casual observer), I’m just pointing out it’s not a universal truth.
It’s totally worth it for you. For many, it is not.
Totally get it. I guess I’m saying that there’s a parenthetical “in my experience” attached to everything I say. I do not believe being a parent is right for everyone or in all situations. I’m just saying that even though it’s hard, if you want to do it, it’s worth it (in my experience)
Totally fair. As a parent, no one told me what the experience was going to be like. An older friend (with college age children) said, “if we told you what it was like, you never would’ve had them.” It’s expensive. It’s suffering. It is never ending, and there is no guarantee your children will care about you when they become adults and are autonomous. You’ve taken on a decades long job you’re paying for.
Consider my comments as attempts to inform before permanent life decisions are made, because for many, no one is being real about what the experience is going to be like.
For drafting up a will, probably for many people. Software is pretty good at workflow management. For handling a dispute? I don’t think so. Not until apps can achieve some kind of general intelligence. There’s a lot of nuance and judgement.
I feel like there are many paths to computation and I’ve met many people who have become functional technologists from various backgrounds. I think the most important thing to figure out early is do you like programming. Do you like this kind of thinking?
This is something that has been requested before, although not something I'd probably look to include in the core project since I attempt to avoid custom formats and syntax where possible. That said, I'd like to get to a point where something like mermaid.js can easily be added if desired. Over the last year the BookStack platform extensibility has grow significantly (API, Webhooks, PHP Hooks, View/Language/Icon Overries) and I'm looking to continue that to achieve such requests without over-stressing the core project itself.
