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 While I believe nhooyr/websocket has a better API than existing libraries, 
 both gorilla/websocket and gobwas/ws were extremely useful in implementing the
-WebSocket protocol correctly so **big thanks** to the authors of both. In particular,
+WebSocket protocol correctly so *big thanks* to the authors of both. In particular,
 I made sure to go through the issue tracker of gorilla/websocket to make sure
 I implemented details correctly and understood how people were using the package
 in production.