Mar 2026
A terminal in a browser tab
Shells that stay alive when the laptop closes, four hand-tuned themes, a command palette, and a phone mode you can drive with one thumb. The first tool, and the one the rest grew out of.
Story
Six months of the first one.
The terminal started as a late-night experiment and became the tool everything else depends on. Most of what happened to it was subtraction.
- lines written
- 123,720lines written
- lines deleted since
- 85,248lines deleted since
- of everything written, gone
- 69%of everything written, gone
- days of work, out of 180
- 40days of work, out of 180
Figures as of 28 September 2026.
30 Mar
First night
Shells in a browser tab, a command palette and four themes, in one sitting. Within the hour it had a second user and an order book for a small cookie business.
3 Apr
A dashboard for everything
Expenses, tasks and notes, then the car and the house.
16 Apr
The first cut
Everything that wasn't a terminal went: 11,212 lines.
10 May
A spreadsheet editor
A file viewer became a spreadsheet editor within the week, with formulas, undo, and saves that patch the original file.
22 May
Its own front door
Sign-in with a password and a code from your phone.
4 Jul
Version 0.2
A full drive: upload, trash, search, sharing and a text editor.
16 Jul
The second cut
The whole drive went, spreadsheet editor and all: 25,466 lines in one change. A rewrite from scratch started the same day and was parked a week later.
28 Aug
Sign-in moves out
Into a shared front door, so the tools that came after could use it too.
13 Sep
The phone round
Drivable with one thumb, and installable on the home screen like an app.
24 Sep
Rewritten in Rust
In twelve days, for one language across every tool. The old Python backend went: 14,621 lines.
25 Sep
One command to ship
Check, back up, restart and verify, in a single step. Commit number 344.
Most of the work was taking things out.