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Today I learnt that you can mix HTML inline in markdown! For example, the following is valid. Foo <hr/> I'd assumed that you needed HTML separately, like ``` blocks, but no: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#raw-html Admittedly HTML is very restricted on most sites, but it's helpful for SSGs.

I've been experimenting with an 'evaluate up to cursor' mode for my PL project. I love evaluating self-contained snippets in Lisp, this generalises the idea. The interpreter remembers the arguments when you run tests, then can re-use them when you say 'eval up to here'. What do you think?

Bril is a cute intermediate language for teaching (think simplified LLVM IR): https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/bril.html The idea of providing a standard JSON format to help students write basic passes is really elegant.