You Don't Need a Tech Stack. You Just Need a Text Editor.
Plain text files built the internet before technology stacks were a thing. Honestly, there is no reason why your web presence cannot just be a simple TXT file.
https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026/04/17/you-dont-need-a-tech-stack-you-just-need-a-text-editor/
#tech #technology #plaintext #textfiles #indieweb #writing #blogging
Love iA writer app, but it is only for Apple.
Found https://typora.io/ which is as excellent and available for Linux too and Free!!! (*edit: website sayd 15 days free trial, but I'm pretty sure I've had this on Linux longer... 🤔)
Plain text files for the win.
RE: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/116881615636081749
I moved to #plaintext years ago and haven't looked back. Extremely lightweight, interoperable with any application, and compatible with so many tools. A little markdown formatting and regular expressions can take you a long ways. Throw version control on it and you can git working stress-free.
Ever since moving my workflow to almost everything #PlainText it seems very revolutionary compared to 99.9% of rich text editors today. I can work in almost any application. If I dislike what Microsoft does to notepad, I can always just get another #MarkDown Or plain text editor. I don't have to contend with arduous menu structures or unintuitive keyboard commands to perform sentence formatting options. Modern web design and software design feels extremely bloated right now. It's gotten to the point where I started to feel like I needed to get the most modern processor just to run Microsoft Word and that will never be normal to me. It's always going to be a strange Feeling. My new workflow is also extremely portable. With just a few custom autohotkey scripts and a text editor, I can work almost
anywhere.
Updated How to convert Markdown to Shun manuscript format Using Pandoc, Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/shun/ #PlainText #Pandoc #Markdown
