On building small, sharp tools

May 28, 2026

This is where I’ll write things down — notes on compilers, terminals, and the small, sharp tools I keep building instead of using the ones that already exist.

Why a terminal

The terminal is the most honest interface we have. There’s no chrome between intent and effect: you type a thing, the thing happens. Everything I find myself reaching for has that shape — phux, cyrs, this site.

A personal site should feel the same way. Not a brochure. A surface you can operate. So the homepage is a prompt, and this is cat-able from it.

What goes here

Short pieces, mostly. The kind of thing that would otherwise rot in a notes app:

• things I learned the hard way
• decisions I want to be able to explain later
• the occasional longer argument

More soon.