diff --git a/src/components/status.css b/src/components/status.css
index 4630d53b..8cec7e3f 100644
--- a/src/components/status.css
+++ b/src/components/status.css
@@ -475,7 +475,6 @@ a.card:hover {
   margin: 8px 0;
   overflow: auto;
   width: 100%;
-  font-size: 90%;
   border: 1px solid var(--outline-color);
   background: linear-gradient(
     to bottom right,
@@ -484,6 +483,10 @@ a.card:hover {
   );
 }
 
+.status .content p code {
+  color: var(--green-color);
+}
+
 /* MISC */
 
 .status-aside {
diff --git a/src/index.css b/src/index.css
index d1f676ef..0f2a23c4 100644
--- a/src/index.css
+++ b/src/index.css
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
   :root {
     --blue-color: CornflowerBlue;
     --purple-color: mediumpurple;
-    --green-color: MediumSeaGreen;
+    --green-color: limegreen;
     --bg-color: #242526;
     --bg-faded-color: #18191a;
     --bg-blur-color: #0009;
@@ -187,6 +187,13 @@ select.plain {
   background-color: transparent;
 }
 
+pre code,
+code {
+  font-size: 95%;
+  font-family: 'SFMono-Regular', Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Menlo, Courier,
+    monospace;
+}
+
 @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
   img,
   video {
diff --git a/src/utils/enhance-content.js b/src/utils/enhance-content.js
index d94d43c2..1034cfc5 100644
--- a/src/utils/enhance-content.js
+++ b/src/utils/enhance-content.js
@@ -1,97 +1,61 @@
 import emojifyText from './emojify-text';
 
+const fauxDiv = document.createElement('div');
+
 export default (content, opts = {}) => {
   const { emojis, postEnhanceDOM = () => {} } = opts;
   let enhancedContent = content;
   const dom = document.createElement('div');
   dom.innerHTML = enhancedContent;
 
-  // 1. Emojis
-  if (emojis) {
-    enhancedContent = emojifyText(enhancedContent, emojis);
-  }
-
-  // 2. Add target="_blank" to all links with no target="_blank"
+  // Add target="_blank" to all links with no target="_blank"
   // E.g. `note` in `account`
   const links = Array.from(dom.querySelectorAll('a:not([target="_blank"])'));
   links.forEach((link) => {
     link.setAttribute('target', '_blank');
   });
 
-  // 3. Code blocks
-  // Check for <p> with markdown-like content "```"
-  {
-    const blocks = Array.from(dom.querySelectorAll('p')).filter((p) =>
-      /^```[^]+```$/g.test(p.innerText.trim()),
-    );
-    blocks.forEach((block) => {
-      const pre = document.createElement('pre');
-      const code = document.createElement('code');
-      const breaks = block.querySelectorAll('br');
-      breaks.forEach((br) => br.replaceWith('\n'));
-      code.innerHTML = block.innerText
-        .trim()
-        // .replace(/^```/g, '')
-        // .replace(/```$/g, '')
-        .replace(/^[\n\r]+/, '');
-      pre.appendChild(code);
-      block.replaceWith(pre);
-    });
-  }
+  // EMOJIS
+  // ======
+  // Convert :shortcode: to <img />
+  let textNodes = extractTextNodes(dom);
+  textNodes.forEach((node) => {
+    let html = node.nodeValue;
+    if (emojis) {
+      html = emojifyText(html, emojis);
+    }
+    fauxDiv.innerHTML = html;
+    const nodes = Array.from(fauxDiv.childNodes);
+    node.replaceWith(...nodes);
+  });
 
-  // 4. Inline code
-  {
-    // Get all text nodes in the DOM
-    const textNodes = [];
-    const walk = document.createTreeWalker(
-      dom,
-      NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,
-      null,
-      false,
-    );
-    let node;
-    while ((node = walk.nextNode())) {
-      // Only get text that contains markdown-like code syntax
-      if (/`[^]+`/g.test(node.nodeValue)) {
-        textNodes.push(node);
-      }
+  // INLINE CODE
+  // ===========
+  // Convert `code` to <code>code</code>
+  textNodes = extractTextNodes(dom);
+  textNodes.forEach((node) => {
+    let html = node.nodeValue;
+    if (/`[^`]+`/g.test(html)) {
+      html = html.replaceAll(/(`[^]+?`)/g, '<code>$1</code>');
     }
-    if (textNodes.length) {
-      // - Split text nodes into array of text and DOM nodes
-      // - Replace markdown-like code syntax with <code> element
-      // - Apply them all back to parent node
-      textNodes.forEach((node) => {
-        const parent = node.parentNode;
-        const text = node.nodeValue;
-        const nodes = [];
-        let i = 0;
-        let j = 0;
-        let k = 0;
-        while ((i = text.indexOf('`', j)) !== -1) {
-          if (i > j) {
-            nodes.push(document.createTextNode(text.substring(j, i)));
-          }
-          j = i + 1;
-          if ((k = text.indexOf('`', j)) === -1) {
-            k = j;
-          }
-          if (j < k) {
-            const code = document.createElement('code');
-            code.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text.substring(j, k)));
-            nodes.push(document.createTextNode('`'));
-            nodes.push(code);
-            nodes.push(document.createTextNode('`'));
-          }
-          j = k + 1;
-        }
-        if (j < text.length) {
-          nodes.push(document.createTextNode(text.substring(j)));
-        }
-        nodes.forEach((n) => parent.insertBefore(n, node));
-        parent.removeChild(node);
-      });
-    }
-  }
+    fauxDiv.innerHTML = html;
+    const nodes = Array.from(fauxDiv.childNodes);
+    node.replaceWith(...nodes);
+  });
+
+  // CODE BLOCKS
+  // ===========
+  // Convert ```code``` to <pre><code>code</code></pre>
+  const blocks = Array.from(dom.querySelectorAll('p')).filter((p) =>
+    /^```[^]+```$/g.test(p.innerText.trim()),
+  );
+  blocks.forEach((block) => {
+    const pre = document.createElement('pre');
+    // Replace <br /> with newlines
+    block.querySelectorAll('br').forEach((br) => br.replaceWith('\n'));
+    pre.innerHTML = `<code>${block.innerText.trim()}</code>`;
+    block.replaceWith(pre);
+  });
 
   if (postEnhanceDOM) {
     postEnhanceDOM(dom); // mutate dom
@@ -101,3 +65,18 @@ export default (content, opts = {}) => {
 
   return enhancedContent;
 };
+
+function extractTextNodes(dom) {
+  const textNodes = [];
+  const walk = document.createTreeWalker(
+    dom,
+    NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,
+    null,
+    false,
+  );
+  let node;
+  while ((node = walk.nextNode())) {
+    textNodes.push(node);
+  }
+  return textNodes;
+}