I'm fascinated to learn that some distros are including the whole HTML manual in the package!
It seems like a nice thing for users, but I was initially surprised to see JS in the package.
https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/difftastic/
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Are there any package managers that treat changelogs as a first class concept?
I end up looking for a CHANGELOG.md or a CHANGES.txt in the source code repository every time. The lack of standard prevents package hosting services being able to show changes.
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.
One nice feature of cargo that I wasn't previously aware of: you don't need to do anything after updating your Cargo.toml.
In npm, you need to remember to `npm i` after changing package.json. It's not declarative and the state can get out of sync.