[ 0.000123 ] OK reticulating splines
[ 0.004812 ] OK mounting /home/dev
[ 0.012094 ] OK phosphor warm-up complete
[ 0.018777 ] WARN caffeine levels nominal
[ 0.029413 ] OK ready. press / to open command palette
a6c.dev is the working notebook of an engineer who treats the terminal as a second nervous system. these pages are not a portfolio — they are a running process, recompiled at irregular intervals, never quite finished.
i write infrastructure for things that should not need infrastructure: tiny static sites, log-shaped essays, dotfiles that have outlived three laptops. i prefer plain text. i prefer the obvious solution. i suspect that most software is older than it looks.
“the terminal is not a skin — it is the architecture.”
// numbers are accurate as of last `git pull`. 2026-04-28T03:14:07Z
// click any card to flip. each is its own running process.
a journal that compiles itself from git commits.
>_ click to inspectstack: rust, lua, posix sh
walks the reflog of every repo on disk and renders the entries as a vertical timeline. exports static html in 800ms on a thinkpad x230.
git://phosphor.log · v0.7.2
a tmux plugin that draws panes as a tree.
>_ click to inspectstack: tmux, awk, ncurses
archived in 2023 because tmux 3.4 made it obsolete. left here as a fossil — the source is still legible, the readme is still funny.
archive://tmux-paneview · retired
a minimal shell init that fits in 1 KiB.
>_ click to inspectstack: posix, fish, zsh
one rc file per shell, each under 1024 bytes, each tested in CI on macos and linux. the fish variant has been the same for 18 months.
git://tinyrc · v3.0.0
a side project that crashed on launch day.
>_ click to inspectstack: go, sqlite, htmx
measured the round trip time of every web framework's hello-world. the irony of it segfaulting at launch is, retrospectively, on brand.
postmortem://latency.fyi · v0.0.1
this very page. recursive, of course.
>_ click to inspectstack: html, css, vanilla js
a single static page held together by intent and a 60-second perlin noise loop. the source is shorter than this description.
git://a6c.dev · 2026.04
an experiment in markdown as literary form.
>_ click to inspectstack: markdown, prose, time
thirty-seven readmes written across as many years — from teenager copying html to engineer typing this. archived not because it failed but because it finished.
archive://readme.poetry · 2008–2024
2026-04-22 03:14
most "best practices" are a fossil record of the bug that originally taught the team a lesson.
2026-04-19 22:01
the readme is the api. the api is the readme.
2026-04-12 01:48
i used to think latency was a tax on the user. it is — but it is also a discipline. a system that responds in 10ms forces you to think in 10ms increments. it is hard to be sloppy at the speed of light.
(see also: latency.fyi, which crashed for unrelated reasons.)
2026-04-05 17:33
plain text outlives every framework. write the document, not the dependency.
2026-03-28 09:11
spent the morning rewriting a 12-line bash script in rust. afternoon, deleted the rust and added two more lines of bash. evening, regretted the rust regret. concluded that taste is just strong opinions about which mistakes to make twice.
2026-03-21 14:02
a config file is a love letter from your past self. read it kindly.
2026-03-14 23:59
cursor blink rate: 1 Hz. the slowest heartbeat the room has.
2026-03-04 04:27
the best feeling in this craft is closing a tmux session at 4 AM with every pane green and no notifications. the second best is opening it the next morning and remembering exactly what you were doing.
“The terminal becomes an extension of thought.”
this site was hand-written in neovim, served as static html, and exists because the author needed somewhere to keep a few sentences. no analytics. no trackers. no newsletter.
colors are phosphor green at varying opacities. the noise behind this text is real perlin noise rendered every frame, not an image. the cursor blinks at exactly 1 Hz.
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| build : static html |
| host : a single nginx box |
| size : 18.4 KiB gzipped |
| since : 2026.04 |
| eof : ~ ~ ~ |
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$ exit 0