Emoji support and Syntax-Highlighting

Hello beloved Treehouse members! We've got an extra fun little update for you today with two new things that we're pretty excited about.

First, here on the forum, you're now able to use emoji for those times when words just aren't enough. If you're new to emoji, you can check out the emoji cheat sheet. To write emoji, just type a colon, then the word, then another colon and you're done! When you submit your post or response, it'll show up.

The second thing is syntax-highlighting for code blocks here on the forum. Now when you share code, you can specify the language and it will be properly syntax-highlighted when you submit. To do so, just type three back ticks (that key to the left of the 1 on your keyboard), then the language (like ruby, python, javascript, etc.), and put your code below. Then just close it off with three back ticks and you're done! If you're sharing HTML or CSS you won't even have to specify the language. It'll just assume those by default.

```ruby
[code goes here]
```

Here's an example of some code rendered with syntax-highlighting:

def my_method(syntax)
  syntax.is_highlighted?
end

Pretty neat, huh? We think so too. We hope that these two little updates will help make the forum a more fun and enjoyable experience for everyone.

Oh, and if you use Redcarpet for rendering Markdown like we do, you can also check out the gem we wrote to make all this emoji and syntax-highlighting magic happen.