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I don't see with eyes
and don't listen with ears.
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The shape of a good CLI
Most CLIs are accidents. They evolve from a script someone wrote on a Tuesday. The good ones share a small set of choices made early: about defaults, verbs, and how silence should feel.
01 Silence as a default
02 Verbs first
03 Output is data
04 On exits and errors
- 02 Static types for config files (and why your IDE hates you) A YAML file is a typed object whose type is hidden in a wiki page from 2019. We can do better, and the fix is mostly about where the schema lives, not what language it's in. ↗
- 03 Notes on rebuilding my feed reader (again) Third rewrite. Same UI, different engine. I keep arriving at the same shape: a list, a column, a single quiet keystroke for 'next'. ↗
- 04 Small models, big context: a practical note An honest writeup of running a 7B model with a 200k context window in production for a month. What broke, what surprised me, what I'd skip next time. ↗
- 05 On believing things you cannot prove Engineers are taught to distrust anything that can't be falsified. Faith, religious or otherwise, asks us to hold beliefs that resist that test. I've come to think both habits live in the same person, and they should. ↗
- 06 SSH as a protocol, not a shell If you only use SSH to get a terminal, you're missing the more interesting half. A tour of port forwards, multiplexing, and using SSH as glue. ↗
- 07 A monastery with wifi: notes from Bhutan The monks at Tango Goemba have a small server room behind a thangka. I went looking for silence and found a quiet conversation about attention instead. ↗
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thimphu, bhutan
27.47°N · 89.64°E
monastery wifi, 8:14 am
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kanazawa, japan
36.56°N · 136.65°E
kissaten, rainy tuesday
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lisbon, portugal
38.72°N · 9.14°W
the only orange tram
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porto, portugal
41.15°N · 8.61°W
douro at golden hour
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