GitHub recently announced support for MermaidJS. I thought it would be nice to integrate it as part of my blog using Pandoc lua filters. So the following:
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
participant Alice
participant Bob
Alice->>John: Hello John, how are you?
Note right of John: Rational thoughts <br/>prevail!
John-->>Alice: Great!
John->>Bob: How about you?
Bob-->>John: Jolly good!
```
would be rendered as: