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A workshop, not a startup.

lunatic.dev belongs to the developer who works after the office has emptied — when the building's hum drops an octave and the only light is the warm phosphor of a well-loved terminal. The lunatic was never mad: luna-touched, attentive to the long pull of the moon, patient with slow processes, content with quiet code.

This is a record of small projects, deliberate tools, and notes from the late shift. No metrics. No funnel. Just craft, by amber light.

Works in slow rotation.

01 2026 · ongoing

phos.sh

A drop-in shell theme that warms your terminal to candlelight temperatures. Variable amber, scan-lines optional, breathing cursor.

02 2025 · stable

bub.css

Single-file CSS for ambient water-bubble overlays. SVG circles with radial gradients, drift duration randomized per element.

03 2025 · v0.4

skel-kit

Skeleton-loading kit that treats placeholder shimmer as a feature, not a hide. Fade-in handoff via Intersection Observer.

04 2024 · archive

moon-cron

A scheduler that respects lunar phases — defer noisy jobs to the dark of the moon, run quiet ones at full. For developers who notice the sky.

Notes from the late shift.

  1. 02:14

    Replaced the office's harsh overhead light with a single desk lamp at 2700K. The terminal now feels like a small fire kept on a long watch.

  2. 02:51

    Bubbles in the cooler are bigger near the bottom. They oscillate more as they shrink. Wrote that into the SVG.

  3. 03:28

    A stuck job. strace revealed an old waitlock — fixed by raising a single timeout from 30s to 120s. Slow processes deserve patience, not pings.

  4. 04:02

    Moon down. Kept typing. The terminal blinks at exactly 530ms — close to the average human relaxed-blink rate. It is, in its own way, looking back.

Write at moonrise.

Letters welcomed. Replies are slow on purpose — usually within a moon cycle.

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