#SyntaxHighlighting
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #SyntaxHighlighting from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
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Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 06:38 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~22136 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 13:00
Languages: English (35) · German (1) · Czech (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.9
Top of the latest posts
Need to customize syntax highlighting in a code block? Get the syntax definition from https://kate-editor.org/syntax/, modify it, and then pass it to pandoc with `--syntax-definition`. E.g., if a specific program name should be highlighted
Published my port of the Alabaster theme family for Helix. Alabaster is a minimal syntax highlighting approach by Nikita Prokopov (tonsky) - only 4 semantic colors: strings, constants, comments, and definitions. Everything else stays plain
Sneak preview (more infos upcoming): If you can’t wait, either, to finally use the Custom Highlight API to avoid adding extra HTML elements and attributes to your pages, try syntaxp! It’s similar to Prism and highlight.js in that you work w
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