Using static websites for tiny archives

Lots of folks mentioning Markdown in the comments. +1 to that. Plain text FTW. I think a lot about my own data hoarding / archiving, and plain text is such a key part of that. Very future-proof.

Ever since WordPerfect I've preferred more deterministic, lightly-formatted documents with some way to see formatting characters directly. Markdown is brilliant, basically a DSL (domain-specific language) for HTML.

The key to plain text is tooling! A couple Markdown tools I haven't seen mentioned here yet (even though they've come up on HN before) are:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-view... - pretty-render Markdown right in the browser

https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ - standalone web-friendly Markdown formatter with many features

Hey, I made a small JS that allows you to host a markdown file directly (no pre-conversion or plugin needed). It is rendered in the browser as HTML.

It can definitely be used in such a local website, giving the convenience of just writing plain markdown.

=> https://www.tducret.com/pure-markdown/

(source code) https://github.com/tducret/pure-markdown