Notes on "libraries"

Diffs (via). Amp is planning to support code diffs for threads, built on this library. Its functionality, demo, and docs are all neat. Bookmarking it here so if I ever need to build code diff functionality, I’ll have it handy.

Beautiful Mermaid (via). Mermaid is the de facto tool for describing diagrams in plain text and embedding them in Markdown. GitHub supports it, for example¹. But I’ve never liked the default theme — that’s why I still haven’t adopted it.

Today I found out the Craft team felt the same way, and they released a new rendering engine for Mermaid diagrams. It outputs both SVG and ASCII art, and the default theme looks great.

I haven’t looked into it deeply yet, but it looks promising at a glance. I hope it becomes a catalyst for better-looking diagrams — either by maturing into a drop-in replacement that the ecosystem adopts, or by pushing the Mermaid team to ship a better default theme.