ASCII by Jason Scott

https://ascii.textfiles.com/

#HackerNews #ASCII #JasonScott #TextFiles #DigitalArt #RetroTech

You Don't Need a Tech Stack. You Just Need a Text Editor.

Plain text files built the internet before technology stacks were a thing. Honestly, there is no reason why your web presence cannot just be a simple TXT file.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026/04/17/you-dont-need-a-tech-stack-you-just-need-a-text-editor/

#tech #technology #plaintext #textfiles #indieweb #writing #blogging

"I deleted my #todo #app and switched to plain #textfiles, and here's why it works"

https://www.makeuseof.com/i-deleted-my-to-do-app-and-switched-to-plain-text-files-and-heres-why-it-works/

Anil Dash: How Markdown took over the world. “Though it’s now a building block of the contemporary Internet, like so many great things, Markdown just started out trying to solve a personal problem. In 2002, John Gruber made the unconventional decision to bet his online career on two completely irrational foundations: Apple, and blogs.”

It took a long time to manually convert the html files to a gmi-happy format, but I have finally made all of textfiles.com available via Gemini Protocol (not the Google garbage). Please go read some textfiles! :-)

PS: If you find any problems please don't hassle Jason about it. I would guess that it is a result of my html-to-gmi translation, so hassle me instead.

PS2: If there is any other text-heavy or text-only content you'd like to see on Gemini let me know and I'll see what I can do.

gemini://gem.snork.ca/textfiles.com/

#GeminiProtocol #textfiles #NoAI

2025 Week 43

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2025/10/23/w43/

TL;DR: Wrestled with my Synology NAS trying to get a Debian VM running, started learning Kubernetes and Argo Workflows, watched Catsby and Miss Biscuits become friends, populated my BBS with text files from textfiles.com. Also: no, I don't need to build a BBS Door that controls Home Assistant lights. (But maybe I do?)

#weeknotes #synology #nas #bbs #retrocomputing #kubernetes #textfiles #cats #nokings #homeassistant

I have a to-do list file I've been using sporadically since 2022. It's only 6kb. Granted, it doesn't actually amount to a whole lot of text, but it's pretty awesome that it's so small. And that it's still readable.

It's actually markdown, and I added it either with a text editor on one of my computers or the NextCloud app on my phone.

#TextFiles