Bring Your Own Client

Just a little note about the main problem I'm pondering these days...

March 2021 Bring Your Own Client Just a little note about the main problem I'm pondering these days... It's delightful to have the freedom to Bring Your Own Client (BYOC) : to choose your favorite application to interact with some data. For example, I can program with Sublime Text, while my teammate uses vim, and we don't need to fight to the death to pick one editor between us. There are dozens of text editors to choose from, and no lock-in from proprietary file formats. Contrast this with Google Docs: in order to live collaborate with each other, we all need to use the same editor. For someo

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