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Never Underestimate The Power of Plain Text : Standardizing on Markdown and Removing Vendor Lock-in

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In today's digital age, we often find ourselves relying on proprietary formats for our data, from documents to PDFs. However, this dependence on closed systems can lead to vendor lock-in, limiting our ability to access and work with our own information. In this article, I want to share my personal journey of migrating away from proprietary formats and embracing the power of plain text, specifically Markdown. By standardizing on Markdown, I have been able to remove vendor lock-in, achieve data portability, and work with my data in a more programmatic way.

Migrating To Plain Text : Moving Away From WordPress

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I registered KMyers.me on June 29th, 2012 to maintain my online presence after I neglected to renew my previous domain. Since then, this website has gone through many evolutions. I started with a simple, hard-coded HTML site and later migrated to a primitive blog platform I developed in PHP in early 2013 as I was learning PHP. I decided to give up on my blog platform and join the millions of websites that were hopping on the WordPress bandwagon. This all changed over the past several months when I began the process of migrating away from WordPress, specifically to a static website generator known as MKDocs.