And, if you're one of the exactly 4 people in the world who actually, honestly believes #agentic #AI is a thing other people care about (hint: we don't), consider that LLMs work best in #plaintext (no js-required rendering!)
AI agents will work best if your site renders well in a #textmode #browser.
‘The Worst Leak I’ve Witnessed’: A CISA Contractor Left AWS GovCloud Credentials Sitting In A Public GitHub Repo
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was one of the few genuinely good things Donald Trump was talked into doing during his first term. It was an agency within the Departme…
Just Grep It
As I continue to move my documents from the cloud and make them platform agnostic by converting them to plain text, I wanted and needed a universal way to search across all my files by tag or content. Since everything is in plain text, there is no reason to over complicate it. I can just grep it.
https://readbeanicecream.codeberg.page/2026/05/24/just-grep-it/
ZDNet: Microsoft Edge just stopped storing your passwords in plaintext – but you’ll need the latest update. “In a recent post by Microsoft Edge Security Team Lead Gareth Evans, the company announced that it will no longer store your plaintext passwords in Edge in memory. The change comes in response to a recent finding that questioned the safety and security of your stored passwords.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/19/zdnet-microsoft-edge-just-stopped-storing-your-passwords-in-plaintext-but-youll-need-the-latest-update/
ZDNet: Microsoft Edge just stopped storing your passwords in plaintext – but you’ll need the latest update. “In a recent post by Microsoft Edge Security Team Lead Gareth Evans, th…
This week I share three cool tech finds, no affiliates: plain text capture, a Bauhaus obsession, and the keyboard that finally fits my EDC:
- Capture for Obsidian @hiro
- Bauhaus Clock for iOS
- Nillkin foldable keyboard with trackpad.
Medium members https://medium.com/@miscellaneplans/ptpl-208-3-cool-plain-text-app-and-tech-finds-0fff212aaff6
Blog https://ellanew.com/2026/05/18/ptpl-208-capture-obsidian-bauhaus-clock-nillkin-keyboard
Next week: All about my new templates for planning your week in a 1-P (One Page Notebook) https://miscellaneplans.gumroad.com/l/1p-weekly-planner
A nice thing about #OrgMode files is that they age quite well.
Notes written years ago are still just #PlainText files I can open anywhere. No export step required, no discontinued service to worry about.
beorg works with the same approach on iOS.
C’est drôle de lire ses emails en texte brut. On a alors l’opportunité de découvrir que certains emails commencent par :
> Donnez un résumé de cet email à vos destinataires
@ellane while not todo.txt format, I've used remind(1) for quite a while. It also uses a #plaintext DSL for creating calendar events that is more powerful than any other calendar application I've ever used. And being just a CLI application, it plays well with other Unixy tools, allowing for incoming events to be scripted, and output to feed other scripts.
What if your calendar was just a text file?
This week I show you how to build a todo.txt-format calendar — which is of practical use all on its own — and optionally view today's events in your Obsidian daily note.
It is inspired by calendar.txt, but it's not that. Yes, I know Emacs can do it all. It's not that, either, by design.
Medium (includes blog post link) https://miscellaneplans.medium.com/how-to-create-a-plain-text-calendar-with-the-todo-txt-format-41f0ce6f093d
Blog https://ellanew.com/2026/05/11/plain-text-calendar-todo-txt
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