My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)

I've been noticing lately, at least for myself, that useful technology stopped happening like 10-20 years ago. If all you could use was tech from 2000 and before you would have a pretty stable stack that just worked (without a monthly subscription.)

There is also this article today: https://jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/12/an-svg-is-all-you-need.h... about how great good ol' svg is. And then every recurring article about using RSS instead of all the other siloed products.

textfiles, makefiles, perl, php, rss, text based email, news groups, irc, icq, vim/emacs, sed, awk; all better than the crap they have spawned that is supposed to be "better".

Out of curiosity, what technology in the past 5 years do you use that you actually find better than something from 20 years ago?

> what technology in the past 5 years do you use [...]

I don't use any software made in the past 5 years.

I think software has improved in the last 20 years.

  - Linux container runtimes
  - Linux hardware support
  - NixOS (19.5 years old!)

My terminal has more colors. My browser got slower.

My vi became vim became neovim. The keybindings are almost the same, but they adapt to newer virtual terminals.

As a programmer, my ability to express myself has got more nuanced. Programming languages have got better.

But the software itself doesn't seem to be better. Everything still depends on C, and the older programs live the longest.