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> whatever setup minimizes the daylight between wanting to write, and writing.

No matter your setup, writing in markdown is the fastest way to get your ideas/thoughts to a presentable format. That should work in all good CMS/blog/static/dynamic software.

The markdown can have associated markdown settings that are either in a comment at the top or a sidecar file that can be adjusted to any platform.

Whenever I write I do it in markdown, get the thoughts out, clean it up, add presentation. Then I know there is no lock-in or ownership of the content to any system.

If you do change systems there may be some initial settings/markup/declarative hooks you need for things like embeds/code highlighting etc, but after that you are rolling.

Standards whether specified or market standards, always help you evade lock-in and can make your content a free agent when needed.

Software today is a mine field of lock-in created by large entities that want you to develop in an abstracted layer above the simple standards, even at the programming level we have lost focus of shared standards that give you platform freedom.




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