Whenever working on your computer as a textsmith, never let it hold any mysteries beyond its binary data. This post looks at the five directories that you have to harness as part of your workbench.

While you are wondering which area of your computer you have to bakup first, this article demonstrates the importance of your $HOME directory. In fact, you have to treat it as your workshop.

Any work that you value has to be placed under version control, not only as part of history but preservation. This article shows why textsmiths should use git.

Dotfiles make it possible to backup your customizations without necessarily starting all over: find the true joy of working with these powerful files

It was the ini file that started my journey as a textsmith: understanding how these text files, rather than the registry, can change the application behavior made me appreciate the beauty of simple configurations.