I’m using the web UI, so I’m assuming whatever broad-spectrum Markdown rendering library it uses has smart quote rendering turned on.

Edit: and just to be snarky: I didn’t type “…” I typed “…”. ;)

*chuckle* I think Lemmy typed those for you, because I typed three periods and got a Unicode ellipsis, and both of those are also unicode ellipses.

It still returns relative paths if the input was relative

False

and it doesn’t resolve “…”

I’ll assume you meant .., since ... is an ordinary filename. (Aside from the “who remembers …?” feature introduced in Windows 95’s COMMAND.COM where cd ... was shorthand for doing cd .. twice and you could omit the space after cd if your target was all dots.)

The reason it doesn’t do that is that, when symlinks get involved, /foo/bar/.. does not necessarily resolve to /foo and making that assumption could introduce a lurking security vulnerability in programs which use it.

Fair. That would have been more constructive… I think I didn’t do that because it still would have felt like encouraging off-topicness.

Signal to noise ratio.

Aside from possibly making them feel better, it doesn’t benefit anyone for them to drop into a topic about thing X and say nothing but “I use thing Y. I don’t like thing X.” and it wastes other people’s time either scrolling past it or clearing out their RSS reader, depending on how they follow things.

…and I could just as easily disparage those frameworks and give concrete reasons, but I don’t. If you don’t have something constructive to say, please be courteous and say nothing.

Depending on your preferences, there’s also Nom if you prefer parser combinators, or lalrpop or grmtools if you prefer LR(1) parsing.

Since reading Which Parsing Approach by Laurence Tratt (author of grmtools), my plan for my own parsing projects has been to use an LR(1) parser generator for the stronger compile-time guarantees.

Thanks. Being the biggest name, Zola is definitely on my list of things to investigate.

I’ll try to fit in sampling it at some point in the near future as a candidate for building on.

I just decided to finally double down and do the work to switch away from WordPress to GitHub Pages and:

• Jekyll is still hell to get running locally for testing without erroring out during the install
• Pelican seems like it’d be more trouble than it’s worth to get what I want
• I insist that no links be broken in the switchover (Doing this to my standards was a big part of what I wound up procrastinating, since I basically need to install WordPress locally and then write something which spiders the entire site and verifies that each path is also present in the new site and the page’s contents are identical when run through a filter to cut away the site template and normalize any irrelevant rendering differences.)
• I already have a pulldown-cmark-based CLI that I wrote a couple of years ago to render single documents and it’d be nice to retrofit it (or at least its features) onto something Rust-based for my blog. (Hell, just a couple of days ago, after implementing support for shortcodes, I got carried away implementing a complete set of shortcodes for rendering depictions of gamepad buttons like :btn-l-snes: within passages of text. Bit of a shame, though, that I’d have to either patch pulldown-cmark or maintain the smart punctuation and strikethrough extensions externally, if I want to hook in shortcodes early enough in the pipeline to be able to implement Compose key-inspired ones like :'e:/:e': → é or :~n:/:n~: → ñ without breaking things.)
• Since my plans for comments are, to the best of my knowledge, unique, I need something in a language I’m willing to hack on and potentially maintain my own fork of. (Jekyll would have been achieved via a preprocessor.)
• I want something where I’m at least willing to port the internal broken link detection from one of my old bespoke Python static site generators, which means either Python or Rust. (Ideally, I’ll also re-create the support for performing HTML and CSS validation on the generated output.)
• Given how many things I either have in my existing single-page renderer (eg. automatic ToC generation with a bespoke scrollspy implementation, Syntect integration, ```svgbob fenced code blocks which produce rendered diagrams, <price></price> tags which provide currency-conversion estimation tooltips with the exchange rate defined in a central location, etc.) or have plans for (eg. plotters-generated charts with some kind contributed extension equivalent to matplotlib’s xkcd mode because it’s important, Wikipedia-style infobox sidebars, etc.), I want to experiment with a WebAssembly-based plugin API so I’m not throwing the kitchen sink in.

Lemmy hangs whenever I try to post my response (I suspect it doesn’t like the length), so here’s a link to it on Github Gist:

https://gist.github.com/ssokolow/16c9311573eabc7343ff7ff2cc3513b3

It begins as follows and I’ve tried to hyperlink my sources as often as possible:

I’ll try to fill in some of the knowledge gaps and respond to some of your answers from a more user-centric perspective.

Moxie Marlinspike’s My first impressions of web3 is also a very relevant thing to share.

As a sampler of the points made, web3 is already re-centralizing around gatekeepers because the average person doesn’t want to run their own server (or, in the blockchain case, host their own full copy of the blockchain) and, if the supermajority of users can’t see you because the gatekeepers block you, then it doesn’t really matter that you’re technically still up.

The takeaway on that particular point is that pushing for more and easier data portability is probably the best route in the face of how real-world users behave. (eg. anything stored in a git repository, including GitHub project wiki contents, is a great example of that. You’ve got your data locally with a simple git clone and you can upload it to a competing service with a simple git push.)