The File Is the Editor

Every post on this site starts as a text file.

There's a title, a date, a category, a short description, and then the writing. Upload the file and the site knows how to display it.

That arrangement appeals to me because the writing remains something I can open and understand. It isn't trapped inside an editing interface. I can copy it, move it, back it up, or read it without asking the website's permission.

It also gives me fewer opportunities to spend an evening adjusting the publishing system instead of publishing.

Fewer opportunities. Not zero.

I built the system myself, so unfortunately I know where all the opportunities are.