[berberous]

Apologies if this unsolicited advice comes off as rude, but consider easing up on the italicizing and "quoting" of random words. It makes your writing style hard to read and waters down the effect when you do each once per paragraph.

[nelsonic]

@berberous, it's good advice and welcome feedback. Thank you.

I just tend to write the way I talk and using punctuation, speech marks and italics/bold is the only way I can think of to convey intonation/meaning. I will try harder to avoid the excessive use of emphasis, as you say it detracts from the writing/reading.

PG almost never uses any sort of emphasis in his essays: http://paulgraham.com/articles.html so I'm going to wean myself off it.

I am genuinely grateful for the feedback. =)

[SmallDeadGuy]

I completely agree. To me, 9 formatting changes in a single sentence, e.g. in the second sentence of that GitHub repo readme, is incredibly excessive. While the comment you replied to isn't nearly as extreme, it still has a similar issue of too many formatting changes per paragraph.