They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore

After a multi-year detour wading through the quagmire of bloatware that is modern software I’m back to coding in Sublime Text.I am finally at peace! Do you know how relaxing it is without the daily “update available” and “view release notes” ritual? There is nothing I dread more than release notes. Between VS Code and Zed, I must have glanced at a million lines of sloppy commit summaries. Can I remember seeing anything of value? Nothing comes to mind…Modern software sucks. It’s built by self-proclaimed “engineers” who make their chat box addiction your problem and still use Twitter.When I mentioned Sublime Text on the socials people went all nostalgic on me.Yes, I captioned a screenshot from a 4K scan of the original 1977 35mm Technicolor release print and then squooshed it into a 35KB lossy AVIF, so what?Sublime Text is still around. The last stable build was released May 2025. There are dev builds as recent as July this year. I don’t know who develops it and I don’t care. All I know…