lump.dev - pragmatic aggregation

>> the heap

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a raw aggregator. dump things together. let the lump speak for itself.

hover the heap — see it snap

// 01 -- what

lumping is a verb

Before code is refactored. Before ideas are categorized. Before clay is shaped. There is the lump — the pre-organized pile of stuff that is, in fact, already useful.

lump.dev is a tool, a philosophy, and a small blog about pragmatic aggregation. We celebrate the half-sorted, the productively messy, the imperfect grouping.

heuristic: if you can lump it, you can ship it.

// 02 -- how

drop — group — keep

Three motions. No taxonomy required. No schema upfront. A lump is a bag with a label written in pencil.

■ drop — toss whatever in
■ group — pull a fistful that smells related
■ keep — the lump is now a thing

$ lump add ./notes ./scraps ./half-thoughts
// 14 items, no folders, fine
$ lump name "ideas/maybe"
// done. it's a lump now.

// 03 -- log

rough notes

posts, in no particular order, slightly rotated.

2026/03/29 Against folders Folders pretend you knew where it went. You didn't. 2026/03/14 A heap is a hypothesis What you pile up is what you actually believe. 2026/02/22 Refactor later, lump now Premature structure is more expensive than mess. 2026/02/05 On naming a pile Pencil on masking tape beats a 12-field schema.

// 04 -- handles

install — or don't

Single static binary. No daemon. Reads a directory. Writes a directory. The whole tool is < 900 lines.

curl -fsSL lump.dev/get | sh
# or just clone it. seriously.

macos linux bsd windows (soon, probably)