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Plain text is the hacker's file format.

You can jot down ideas every day in markdown somewhere, maybe in a daily journal that's part of your second brain. Then you can move them into documents in a Git repo. Then you can feed them into an LLM and start producing interesting functions for your personal utility library. Then you can string them into a software solution for one problem or another.

This probably sounds vaguely disturbing if you are wearing a software engineer's hat. But if you're wearing a hacker's hat it's nirvana. At no point do you have to worry about being bound by the limitations of a particular tool, you are just transforming one chunk of text into another and moving those chunks around, really.

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