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Technology Less Unclear

Advances in the world around us can be daunting. This site gives insight into what the technologies are and how they work -- from the universe to the subatomic.

Currently an experimental site

This begins with the fundamentals to how this site was built.

Phoenix Editor

The Phoenix Editor is a free visual editor for websites, web apps and Markdown. Phoenix Code is natively available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. ChromeOS or alternative platforms. While Phoenix Editor is Free, there is a paid version which allows editing in the preview, visual AI with Claude Code and has a Rich Markdown Editor: Just look under pricing if you are interested.

Phoenix Editor also has many interesting, surprising extensions, such as php and many others. It also has tools such as git (access to github) and terminal. The APIs allow for creation of templates and extensions.

Phoenix Code (the open-source web and desktop code editor, and successor to Adobe Brackets) is created and maintained by the same core team of engineers behind Brackets and classic design tools.

Key figures and team members involved in building and leading Phoenix Code include:

• Arun Bose – Co-Founder
• Charly P Abraham – Co-Founder
• Devansh Agarwal – Founding Engineer
• Krrish Parmar – Designer
• Ansu Ann Koshy – Product Growth
• Phoenix Code Bot – The project mascot and assistant

This site was built entirely with Phoenix Code.

No element of this site was harmed by WordPress.

Site specifics

The Plain Tech uses the Libron Font for text and Bitter for headings, Libron is a free, open-licensed serif font designed by Nico Verbruggen specifically optimized for digital reading and e-ink e-readers. It is not for commercial use. It makes reading much easier on smart phones and tablets. The fonts automatically rescale so that on larger screens the charaters are larger.

The header and footer are fixed at the top and bottom in the browser. There are buttons in the footer that can be used to scroll to the top or the bottom of the text,

The hamburger menu is used in the heading to provide links to other pages. For large screens, the links are displayed in line. On mobile devices and smaller screens, there is a button to expand the menu vertically to preserve the heading format.

Next technologies to be used

Astro Build

Astro Build is a web framework for content-driven websites. Astro powers the world's fastest marketing sites, blogs, e-commerce websites, and more. It has all the tools to build almost any application and has documentation for everything.

Turso

Turso is a database technology also known as libsql, built on the basis of sqlite database but rewriten in the Rust programming language and faciitating muliple users per database. Write that blog… with Turso! describes how one site was written using Turso. It is something of a cms. Turso obviously has potential for web development and setting up blog sites with comments.

Eddyter

Eddyter is a plug-and-play rich text editor SDK for developers. Drop into your React, Next.js, or Vue app in 10 minutes. AI, storage, and infra fully managed. Eddyter has most of the features of TinyMCE, CKEditor, TipTap, Quill and others, while offering such things as Mathematical Notation: It a dedicated Equation block that handles LaTeX and MathML, so you're not limited to subscript and superscript — you can write proper formulas. It has voice to text. It has AI too. And yes, it can manage colors as well.

If only Payload CMS and EmDash CMS had gotten the word.