The /html Skill Tariq Said Not to Build

I Built the /html Skill Tariq Said Not to Build

Last week I read Tariq’s post on the unreasonable effectiveness of HTML and had that very specific sensation of someone reaching into your skull, pulling out a thought you hadn’t quite finished forming yet, and naming it on a public blog. The man had articulated something I’d been doing accidentally for months — asking Claude for HTML files instead of markdown when I wanted to actually look at the output. Status reports. Plans. Code reviews. Anything I’d want to share with another human and not have to apologize for first.