@hyde @ploum

"If you need bold and colours, it means you can’t write."

* glances at his markdown-formatting-heavy toots and blog posts 🫣

lol, love this Over/Under. :D

"We forget that a filesystem is, by definition, a database."

Preach that, yoooo!

I maintain my own file search system using find, grep, and zstd, and it is far faster than either Gnome or KDE's file index database.

@WinterMute @hyde @ploum

The thing with creative constraints is that they're invitations, not mandates.

For example, I think that the classic 140-character limit on Twitter of old is an amazing creative restraint, and I even added a switch to my toot front-end to set that as an optional limit.

I think it's totally fine for a writer to challenge others to write without the use of rich text formatting. It's up to the other to decide whether or not that is a valuable constraint. The same can be said for post limits (500 characters drives me nuts, honestly), extensive CSS formatting, posting in absolute plain text, or whatever.

Heck, it's equally valid to say THEANCIENTGREEKSALLWROTELIKETHISSOWHYARENTYOU!

We could totally do a #NoSpaceNoCapitalizationNoPunctuationChallenge if we wanted to! XD

Besides some artistic explorations, I’ve never read a text where the color was meaningful except links in HTML).

Same for most "bold" use. And there’s a simple reason: writing is a protocl. Colours/bolds are outside of the standard protocol and thus you have no idea how they will be interpreted.

They are a distraction and, more than often, the symptom that the writer is not confident in his writing.