i give up.

_sass/base.scss

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ textarea { vertical-align: top; }
  */
 .lineno { color: var(--code-color-1); margin-right: 15px; }
 figure.highlight { margin: 5px 0; }
-code { color: #00FF00; }
+code { color: #FFFFFF; }
 pre { background-color: var(--background-color);  border: 0;  padding: 0;  margin: 0;  overflow:auto;  font-size: $base-font-size;  color: #FFFFFF;  line-height: 1.7 !important;  font-family: $base-font-family !important; }
 .highlight .hll { background-color: var(--code-color-2); }
 .highlight .c { color: var(--code-color-1); font-style: italic } /* Comment */

dev/_posts/2022-09-07-blog-composer-script.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ One thing I love about this setup is I just have to write markdown; and I can ea
 
 <!--more-->
 
-```text
+<pre class="plaintext">
 ---
 title: Blog Composer Script
 layout: post
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ date: 2022-09-07 17:47:15
 permalink: /dev/2022/SEP/07-blog-composer-script.php
 excerpt_separator: <!--more-->
 ---
-```
+</pre>
 
 
 This is quite literally the front matter for this post. No, it's not a whole lot of information; but it would be really nice to just have all of that dumped in to a file right in to a ready-to-write state. Run a command and get to typing. This why we run Linux and self-host, right? To automate all the self-hosted things!