My kid is home from college. I’m watching them do their homework while struggling against the shortcomings of Microsoft Word. It’s the Bourne shell of word processing: powerful, ubiquitous, chock full of time-sucking footguns, and probably the wrong tool for any job that won’t fit on a single screen.

After working with more civilized tools like a good text editor paired with a Markdown processor, I’d been happy to forget that some people still voluntarily use Word.