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Display backlink preview on hover

The combination of microformat2 h-entry and backlinks is potent. Each note page that’s marked up with a e-content microformat2 property can be retrieved via fetch() and displayed as a preview elsewhere on the site. No database required; the website is the API. With these two snippets you can implement dynamic backlink functionality on pretty much any webpage. With a little standardization (mostly complete by the microformat2 standard), one could support backlinks across websites.…