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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.

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.

Third rewrite. Same UI, different engine. I keep arriving at the same shape: a list, a column, a single quiet keystroke for 'next'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No cloud. No VPS. A loud fan and a domain name. What I learned about uptime, electricity, and the difference between a hobby and a habit.

The version of Stoicism that gets sold online is mostly aesthetic. The actual texts are stranger, quieter, and far more interested in other people than the LinkedIn version lets on.

The best shortcut in any app I use is the one that does nothing. It just dismisses things. Esc, with care.

I spent fourteen mornings in the same coffee shop in Kanazawa, ordering the same thing, in a language I barely speak. Here's what happens to a draft when you remove every variable but the page.

I built a parser for the way I already write todos in plain text. Tags, dates, priorities, and a single character for 'maybe'.