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Ok this is kinda unrelated but the phrase "looking back on my life" triggered a meta-memory of one of my favorite lesser known Green Day songs from my adolescence, and I've decided to subject you all to the lyrics of the first verse/chorus.
Thanks, hadn't heard that one in a while.
Cool! Btw, how did you get those words to come out purple??
They're not purple on my side, must be your app. I just formatted it as a code block with the ``` on either side.
Weird, I'm on desktop. Maybe it's my theme: darkly-pureblack. Anyway, here's how it looks on my end:
Mine (web browser) does the same. Looks as if [programming code] syntax hilighting failed at determining the programming language but hilighted some possible keywords anyway. iow:
Huh, weird. No clue!