My first encounter with Neko was on OS/2 as well.

Thanks for finding this post. I did a quick search for it and came up empty.

This is exactly why.

It is my assumption that Gruber chose ‘.text’ over ‘.txt’ for several reasons. To give it a little difference when searching for files. To be more legible to non-computer people. And finally, while Classic MacOS did not use file extensions, the Resource Fork type code for text files was ‘TEXT’

Also a little extra distinction: “.txt” is a relic of 8.3 DOS filename conventions. He was not bound by these. If you’ve got the space, of course you’ll go with “.text” over “.txt” because text is the input, HTML is the output, Markdown is the tool for converting one into the other, per the first line of the introduction:

> Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

Ergo they’re not Markdown documents, they’re text files that can be converted into HTML using Markdown.

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

Daring Fireball had the ‘.text’ version since at least the public release of Markdown, if not earlier.

This should be the version Gruber edits in MarsEdit or BBEdit, but it maybe partly rendered by the Moveable Type CMS

The extension is ‘.text’ because that is what he suggested as the Markdown extension, but of course most of us went with ‘.md’

While keyword tags are not used on the website, you can see the one he uses for his personal purposes at the bottom of the Markdown

I do this too. It was a easy sell to my department

Regardless of if we consider Holmes a drug addict, abuser or merely a controlled user, it is clear from the stories that Watson was very concerned as both a Friend and Medical expert, that Holmes is damaging his mental faculties

My all time favorite laptop was the 1994 Apple PowerBook DUO 280 with active greyscale screen. These screens actually looked the best in direct sunlight with no backlighting

The battery life was listed as 2-4 hours. Normally it was under 3 hours. However, with no backlighting and booting a stripped down Mac OS and apps off a RAM disk, I could get close to 6 hours in BBedit or WriteNow. I would spin up the HD to save data and turn it off again.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powerbook_duo/specs/mac_p...

Beyond the UHK keyboards there are others with trackpoints

TEX had a whole line https://tex.com.tw/products/shura

The classic Happy Hackers Keyboard has one. https://hhkeyboard.us/hhkb-studio/product

And Lenovo itself offers several usb keyboards with TrackPoint https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F3U4TQS

I've had two of those Lenovo keyboards, beware the USB connector gets damaged ridiculously easily.

The first time I remember seeing a “no use, no pay” plan was with the ProVUE’s Panorama X excellent database application for macOS.

https://provue.com/

oh this is interesting because I feel like it wouldn't work with infra as that runs in the background and you almost never have zero usage on a DB.

IaaS is mostly like this already. There are some things where it’s not used like VMs which serverless tries to solve. Additionally people tend to waste tons of resources with IaaS because they don’t scale on usage.

Yeah that's exactly what I thought: Infra is usually more usage based

I will give this a try. I am needing something to use at my coffee shop/bakery for my staff. Currently, we use Paprika and I am Svelte developer, so this maybe a perfect fit.

Awesome man, I did chat with a mate about adding baker's percentages to the app, but I guess with scaling, you shouldn't really need to use them. Let me know how you get on, I'm basically on this for the moment, so happy to tweak any additions that are feasible and fit into the design ethos.