Matabash: an image beautifier and status updater for Mataroa

Putting images in frames with nicely-formatted captions like in my last two posts is a bit labor intensive on Mataroa. There's no good way to do it natively in markdown; you can use MD tables, but they require the presence of a header row. Good for some use cases, but not all. A subset of HTML is supported, including <figure> and <figcaption>, but these always center the caption below the image; which is fine for captions of a few words, but if I want the caption to be a block of information, I really want that to be left-justified. Also, the default <figcaption> font is a bit too small for my liking. I can increase the font size with <figcaption style=, but if I attempt to change the text justification this way it gets stripped out. Since manual HTML tables are the only way to get the exact look I want, I decided to make a little bash script called Picbash to simplify this. It took me less than an hour, but then I thought, "hm, it would be nice if I could use the API to automatically…