[Pandoc](https://pandoc.org/) deserves to be mentioned before Jetsam as it's the
real workhorse of this operation. Jetsam can be described as a Pandoc-based
-distribution of writing utilities designed to help you write, publish, and
-maintain a corpus of personal-space writings.
+distribution of writing utilities that are designed to help you write, publish,
+and maintain a corpus of personal-space writings.
# About Personal-Space Writing and Jetsam Philosophy
choose something that won't lock you in. Either the format should be relevant
in 20 years or you should be able to be easily port it to whatever is relevant in
20 years.
-* **Next, prioritize predicably stable tools.** Even if you choose a simple data
+* **Next, prioritize predicable, stable tools.** Even if you choose a simple data
format, each application tends to have its own quirks about how it handles the
data. When you accumulate a volume of data, migrating becomes non-trivial even
for small deviations. Each new dependency incurs a maintenance cost, so it deserves
scrutiny. When you add a new dependency, try to
-[Choose Boring Technology](https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology) as the
-maintenance risk of _<boring project\>_ tends to be much lower than _<the new hotness\>_.
+[Choose Boring Technology](https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology) because the maintenance risk of _<boring project\>_ tends to be much lower than _<the new hotness\>_.
* **Then, prioritize extensibility.** Ostensibly, a personalized space is the
goal. So, why is it last in this list of priorities? Because, if you don't
have the stability offered by the previous priorities, you'll spend an awful
With those guidelines in mind, you can see why we rely so heavily on Pandoc.
* **We can use Markdown as our primary data format.** Markdown is a simple
-standard, which makes it easy to create tools for. Furthermore, it's a text-
-based standard, so if all else fails, it's still readable.
+standard, which makes it easy to create tools for. Furthermore, it's a
+text-based standard, so if all else fails, it's still readable.
* **Pandoc is its own data migration tool.** This includes migrating between
different flavors of Markdown.
* **Pandoc is relatively stable with ongoing support.** There have been 3 major