Beautiful day. Beautiful flower.
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Sep 24, 2023, 3:42 PM -04:00
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Sep 15, 2023, 6:41 AM -04:00 Reply to https://nerdculture.de/@titaniumbiscuit/111067559683462120
Yeah I may have judged too quickly with regard to Obsidian. Do you use or recommend it?
NerdCulturetitaniumbiscuit (@titaniumbiscuit@nerdculture.de)
@desmondrivet@indieweb.social Please don't use literal ASCII but sth like UTF-8 😅 > Longevity is also the reason I avoid solutions like Obsidian or Roam Research for my notes or my GTD lists. I don't know how these pieces of software store your notes behind the scenes, but I do know that if they suddenly up and disappeared, I'd be in a bind. At least Obsidian literally does use plain text files, markdown and [[wiki-style links]] which should be compatible with a lot of other software. -
Sep 14, 2023, 8:11 PM -04:00 On the Durability of Plain Text
My blog is 16 years old. I've rotated through several blogging engines in that time (Bloxsom, YAWT 1.0/2.0, Pelican and finally Eleventy) but they all have one thing in common: they all process blog entries stored as plain text files.
The fact that all my blog entries are stored as plain text files on my computer is, I believe, one of the main reasons my blog has lasted this long. Text files are trivial to back up. Text files don't really crash and rarely get corrupted. Text files are readable and writable on any computer manufactured since the 1980's - hell, the 1960's if I let punch cards into this conversation. When you contrast this simple durability with, for example, a MySQL data store (used by several blogging engines, including one of the most popular ones, WordPress), with all of its attendant version compatibility and data corruption issues, the superiority of plain text becomes undeniable if you're trying to write something that lasts.
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Sep 13, 2023, 7:52 PM -04:00 Photo enlarged to show texture
