18th February 2021
TIL
Using sphinx.ext.extlinks for issue links
— Datasette's [release notes](https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/main/docs/changelog.rst) are formatted using Sphinx. Almost every bullet point links to the corresponding GitHub issue, so they were full of lines that look like this:
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