I just don’t get why we suffer through using lesser software every day because “what if…?!”.
If, for example, Day One goes away, I’ll still have all my text/json/html/pdf exports, books, backups, etc. I can go all text then. I’d lose all the fancy bits, but at least I had them, until I didn’t.
Meanwhile, I have this:
I’m all about plain text. Most of my notes from the past few years use Org mode. My blog is written using Markdown. I get it, but there are also 25-year-old WordPress blogs still plugging away nicely.
Speaking of WordPress, I’m writing this post using it. You know why? It’s easy, requires no other infrastructure or dependencies, and doesn’t break once a month due to software updates. ::knocks wood::.
I don’t know how long this mood will last, but it’s pretty strong today.
Suffering every day now just to avoid some theoretical and unlikely future event that’s easy to recover from seems unecessary and even a little foolish to me.
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