markdown
On portability and notes apps
Evernote is getting a lot of flack lately and for good reason. It was recently acquired by Bending Spoons, a company that has acquired a number of other apps and proceeded to enshittify them. It appears Bending Spoons is now doing the same with Evernote. Evernote’s pricing recently jumped to $250 year (or $25/month) for their “advanced” plan. THAT. IS. INSANE. And people are rightfully getting very annoyed with up Evernote (see just a few examples here, here, here, and here).
plain text power moves
Many a systems engineer or systems administrator have touted the innumerable benefits of moving beyond the visuals of graphical user interfaces to the time-honored activity of entering text at a command line interface. I'm here to talk about plain text power moves, but not in that sense. I want to talk about a few of my favorite daily tools that I rely upon as a systems engineer but don't often think much about, and how they make a difference. Markdown is a lightweight markup language that allow...
Markdown Showcase Test
testing standard.site stuff
T3Chat Cloneathon Postmortem
Custom markdown components with remark and web components
Writearound
How I gradually fell out of love with the idea of using a code editor for all of my writing—in part because of a subtle MacOS feature that Linux doesn’t have.
A Note On Note Apps
You shouldn’t rely on a SaaS-based note-taking application, in my view, and if you buy something, buy it outright. Here’s why.
building a basic markdown editor: unified, trees and data
Building an Astro Blog with View Transitions
Bare-Metal Writing
Over the decades, word processors have continually gained new features that get in the way of the ultimate goal: writing. How do we get back to that goal?