To give more context: this is about a routine that parses tags, emojis and our custom mention format like `@[userId:123]` I've created tokenizers to plug into micromark (aka remark) for parsing markdown.

It: - is fully open source: github.com/danielberndt/buil… - has a hand-picked dictionary of ~1700 words - works offline - was a great learning opportunity for me to dabble into the intersection of games and web dev

4. Live coding is a rather effective for getting things done! Being driven to show something visible and interactive helps at not over-architecting your app. Having tangible results early on is super motivating! Skip the design-system, etc. Just get *something* on the screen!