Have You Heard the Good News About Microlighter?

Dave Rupert wrote about shipping microlighter: a tool for handling syntax highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlights API. I saw his post the day he released it, and I had an implementation PR up for my blog by end of day. Then, like I do with so many things, I let it sit there. This is the period where my subconscious takes over. It does the work of, “How do I actually feel about that? Do I want to merge it? Do I have any regrets about what I did?” If I still want to merge it after a few days, that’s usually a good sign that I’ll be happy with the work. (Sometimes after a few days I say, “What the hell was I thinking?” and then it’s easy to simply close the PR with zero regrets.) Well it’s a few days later and I still feel good about it, so time to ship! My PR for this is pretty straightforward: Remove highlight.js dependency (and related plumbing) On paths that 1) match my post pages (i.e. /YYYY/:slug), and 2) have code on them, pull microlighter deps from a CDN and run it. Done.…

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