Sam Hames

File over app — Stephan Ango

TLDR:

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

This is a very important point: data is much more tangible and material in ways that software isn’t. When we consider data and software as an assemblage, the data and the models we fit it into seem to constrain and afford us much more than the software. We have much more freedom with the software than the data format.