I had a whole chapter for the ActivityPub book that I never got around to doing. I just finished it. I don't think my editor is going to be happy, since it's going to make the book too big, but I'd rather have to cut back than live with regrets.
Is there an Internet Media Type for social microsyntax, the plain-text source format that is used to convert @-mentions, hashtags, and URLs into links in HTML5? I've been unable to find one, and have fallen back to text/plain.
@evan well, that's just one example... if you wanted to look at hashtags, then what is there to actually do with them from a parsing standpoint? they don't translate to links. they're just meant to make searching for them easier as a token. auto-linking to a local filter/search is a courtesy that isn't actually crucial to their function. and you still have to consider the usual "which characters are allowed", "how do you delimit them", "which character starts them" -- what about bangtags? etc