For better or worse, plain-text files, with their many encodings and layered formats, are the only real universal data interface we have had so far.
Plaintext Productivity | Introduction
The Plaintext Productivity system is a smart way to get organized on Windows, using plaintext files as your trusted system and great software to make it easy.
Files As Metadata Format
File structures with simple contents can be used instead of YAML, TOML or JSON. More effectively!
Creating “Edit” Links That Open Plain-Text Source Files in a Native App
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Nothing new under the sun: everything is a file
The Unix revolution was built on a key principle: everything is a file. Now, with the rise of AI Agents, LLMs have access to half a century of file-based arcana. The result? Everything is becoming a file again.
microsoft/presidio
An open-source framework for detecting, redacting, masking, and anonymizing sensitive data (PII) across text, images, and structured data. Supports NLP, pattern matching, and customizable pipelines.
EmDash
The Astro-native CMS. A modern successor to WordPress with type-safe content, plugin extensibility, and portable deployment.
blaine/relationaltext
WASM-backed rich text library with flat facets, 40+ format adapters, and a lens system for cross-format translation
mohsen1/yek
A fast Rust based tool to serialize text-based files in a repository or directory for LLM consumption
AT2MD
AT2MD: Convert Bluesky threads into markdown documents effortlessly. Preserve the style and integrity of your posts with our user-friendly web app.
DASL — Data-Addressed Structures & Links
A small set of simple, standard primitives to work on content-addressed data.
at this point for each day that goes i hate the atproto blob type more and more. like. not blobs themselves at all. but the damn data model representation of a blob reference. why does it have the mime type there ... arguably even the size. could technically even just be a plain CID link but cant
