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On versioned writing

Articles on Git, GitHub, AI, and bun.ink.

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  1. 4 min read

    Markdown That Leaves Your Diff Alone

    What the bun.ink editor shows you, what's actually in the file, and why someone else's file stays character-for-character identical after you save it — apart from the sentence you changed.

  2. 4 min read

    Metadata and Notes – What's Inside a Markdown File Besides the Text

    Front matter for title and status at the top of the file, notes as reminders attached to a specific spot in the text. How both work in bun.ink, where they're stored and who sees them.

  3. 11 min read

    Proving Your Work – What the AI Watermark Doesn't Tell You

    Since August 2026, Anthropic has been tagging text from new Claude models with an invisible watermark — whether the model wrote the piece or merely proofread it. Why that leads to false accusations, and how your commit history proves a text is yours, sentence by sentence.

  4. 9 min read

    The Editor Comes to the Text — Reviews as a Pull Request

    How someone else can revise your text without ever touching it — and how, in the end, you decide passage by passage what makes it into your manuscript.

  5. 5 min read

    The Commit Browser – Browsing Your Text's History Across Every Commit

    How the new commit browser in the Changes tab works — browse a branch's entire commit history, pick any two snapshots to compare, and understand how this differs from the familiar local comparison.

  6. 10 min read

    How bun.ink protects your texts – encryption explained simply

    What happens to your texts before they're saved — server-side encryption for all documents, the high-privacy folder and the high-privacy project for your diary, and what you're responsible for yourself in all of this.

  7. 5 min read

    Why Your Writing Deserves a Repository — and What bun.ink Does With It

    The story behind bun.ink and how it works under the hood – Markdown in your own GitHub repository, commits as deliberate versions, and revisions from people or AI agents that you decide on passage by passage.

  8. 5 min read

    Your Writing Statistics – Watch Your Text Grow

    How the writing statistics in bun.ink make words, writing time, and progress visible – for individual documents, whole projects, and your long-term writing routine.

  9. 4 min read

    Using bun.ink on a Mobile Device

    Why bun.ink deliberately runs in the mobile browser, still feels like an app, and how to add the writing environment to your home screen on iOS and Android.

  10. 10 min read

    The TipTap Editor in bun.ink – Write More Calmly, Format Faster, Save Safely

    A look at the less obvious features of the TipTap editor in bun.ink: Zen mode, panic button, Markdown formatting, shortcuts, and how local cloud storage works together with GitHub branches.

  11. 8 min read

    Using GitHub the right way – the versioning workflow in bun.ink

    From a free GitHub account to your first repository and on to the complete branch, commit and sync workflow in bun.ink – explained step by step, without the jargon.

  12. 2 min read

    Writing Faster with Short Text Snippets

    How text snippets in bun.ink insert frequent words and phrases with just a few characters — and how jump marks make text blocks even more flexible.

  13. 6 min read

    AI as a Controlled Writing Partner – Creating Texts with Agents and Clear Rules

    How writers can use AI to draft, check, and revise their work without surrendering control over style, content, and decisions.

  14. 4 min read

    Git and GitHub made simple – version control for writers

    What Git and GitHub actually are, in plain language – and why these tools from the programming world turn out to be surprisingly useful for writers.