Archived – this site ended its life on 2022.01.02. For the next microblogging site from Chris Krycho, see v1.microblog.chriskrycho.com.

I was hoping for a pleasant afternoon implementing a markdown-it plugin for line blocks” to support poetry. It was… not a pleasant afternoon.

markdown-it is fast, but between its API design (:shudder:) and its mostly-missing docs (:sigh:) it’s terrible to work with. I quit.