Stax Digital Garden

MOC - The Plain-Text Longevity Standard

2 min read

MOC - The Plain-Text Longevity Standard

● Evergreen

The engineering discipline of building software systems where knowledge persistence is completely decoupled from application execution runtimes. Storing notes in standard UTF-8 CommonMark with typed YAML frontmatter guarantees that personal records outlive proprietary companies, license servers, and abandoned cloud databases.

Mechanical Invariants

  • Zero Binary Encapsulation: Notes exist as human-readable, line-oriented text files directly inspectable by standard POSIX utilities (grep, awk, find).
  • Disposable Auxiliary Projections: SQLite caches, search indices, and relational graphs stored in .bosun/ carry zero conflict authority. Deleting them results in zero data loss; the runtime reconstructs state directly from disk.
  • Lossless AST Round-Tripping: Concrete syntax trees preserve whitespace, formatting trivia, and frontmatter comments during parsing and re-serialization.

Connected Dispatches & Notes

  • [BSN-1013 - Plain Text as a Durable Substrate](BSN-1013 - Plain Text as a Durable Substrate)
  • [BSN-1002 - Deterministic Round-Trip Serialization](BSN-1002 - Deterministic Round-Trip Serialization)
  • [BSN-1004 - Frontmatter as a Strongly Typed Schema](BSN-1004 - Frontmatter as a Strongly Typed Schema)
  • [DAT-1006 - Flat Markdown vs Embedded SQLite](DAT-1006 - Flat Markdown vs Embedded SQLite)
  • [BPT-1001 - The Bosun Architecture Specification](BPT-1001 - The Bosun Architecture Specification)
  • [MOC - Bosun PKM Tools](MOC - Bosun PKM Tools)
  • [MOC - Bosun PKM Engine](MOC - Bosun PKM Engine)
  • [MOC - Data Liberation Workbenches](MOC - Data Liberation Workbenches)

Graph View