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Alex / KATT 🐱

Hey @bsky.app, can we get markdown support in tweets so we don't need code screenshot? 🍿 cc @samuel.bsky.team

1/11/24, 8:19 pm2 reposts44 likes

eric's been working on gist embeds bsky.app/profile/esb....

Eric@esb.lol

Thoughts?

Gists are such a good idea because the amount of code sample images without alt on twitter was grim

Teshane Crawford

@handle.invalid

This is gonna be huge, excited

Work in progress bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Ryan Skinner@ryanskinner.com

💅

@statisticsftw.bsky.social

I would've joined years ago if there was markdown support!!! So huge.

We had markdown code blocks in Elk, and it was one of the features that made some folks in the community give Mastodon a try but it wasn't enough (for a ton of other reasons). But hard agree, it is unreal that the network we used for dev networking never added code blocks bsky.app/profile/pata...

patak@patak.cat

Are there plans to add syntax highlighting to code blocks and inline code to Bluesky? It is one of the top features devs appreciated in Elk. Being able to share a11y code snippets instead of images makes a huge diff. I think it could help a lot to promote tinkering with the protocol among devs

@heathhenley.dev

wow this is going to be great!

Alex / KATT 🐱

damn I'm sold

Ryan created an issue for markdown code blocks here github.com/bluesky-soci...

github.comAdd Syntax Highlighting for Code Blocks and Inline Code · Issue #5895 · bluesky-social/social-appDescribe the Feature Earlier today, @patak-dev made a post highlighting the importance of syntax highlighting, especially for developers sharing accessible code snippets rather than images. This fe...