Traven's Naming

It takes its name from B. Traven, the author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, one of the most successfully anonymous writers of the twentieth century, but also a man whose true identity was never conclusively established despite decades of investigation.

B. Traven was an anonymous author who wrote about ordinary people fighting systems that would grind them down. His manuscripts arrived at publishers without a return address, he communicated through intermediaries, and he built a body of work that outlasted every attempt to attach a name to it. He spent his entire career proving that the work outlasts the author, that anonymity is not absence, and that you can build something real and meaningful and then walk away from it completely, and that beyond all of that, the product still exists on its own terms.

For a privacy-first and preferably local/selfhosted WYSIWYM editor that is made to be embedded anywhere full-featured Markdown editing is required, the name is right. It is for developers who prefer to selfhost because they understand what ownership actually means in practice, but for the sake of convenience it is also available via CDN.

Traven is infra-plumbing that is built to work anonymously in the background and just do its job.

The code belongs to everyone: MIT licensed, so use it freely.