The power of blogging with plain old versioned text

1 · Lindsey Kuper · Nov. 30, 2017, 5:49 a.m.
Something I really like about my blogging setup here on composition.al is that my posts are just plain old version-controlled text files. Years ago, Dave Herman remarked on how nice it is to be able to blog using one’s text editor, and I feel the same way. But there’s so much more to it than just being able to write my posts in my editor of choice. For me, the more important thing is that I can make use of the vast number of tools out there for manipulating text, including and especially vers...