Between the day job and an unexpected move, work on Phials was put on the back-burner for a bit. That said been getting back on it a bit, and writing this overview doc for developer documentation has got me feeling re-energized.

File managers suck, so I spent 3 years building one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck (almost) everyday until release. Day 6: Layered sorts, multiple filters, and file grouping.

File managers suck, so built one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck (almost) everyday until release. Day 5: Edit 70+ file types without leaving Phials. Markdown, code, images, spreadsheets, and more.

File managers suck, so I spent 3 years building one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck everyday until release. Day 4: An integrated terminal.

File managers suck, so built one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck everyday until release. Day 3: Tree view? Column view on Windows? Phials has 7 file views at launch (some are a surprise)

File managers suck, so I spent 3 years building one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck everyday until release. Day 2: Built in full application uninstaller for MacOS

File managers suck, so I built one that doesn't. Phials is a multi-platform file manager built in Tauri and Svelte. I'm posting reasons why Phials doesn't suck everyday until release. Day 1: Rich folder previews with composition and git info.

File managers suck, that's why I've been building one in my free time for the past 3 years. Phials is cross-platform, powered by Rust & Svelte via Tauri, and incredibly extensible. It's almost ready, and I'm real excited to start sharing what it can do.

AI is effectively a ploy by the bourgeoisie to steal and emulate the labor of the the proletariat so they don't have to pay the already exploitatively low wages anymore. The only way AI companies can justify their valuations is if the displace millions of workers, there is no other vector.

Anyone else feel completely unrepresented in public discourse? Almost every take on every topic across the political spectrum seems born of a unrealistic idealism, moral grandstanding, lying for ones own self interest, circlejerking, or just plain ignorance. Time to unplug for a bit.

The home page and search algorithms of YouTube have deteriorated dramatically over the past month or so, and at this point are borderline unusable. Opened YouTube today and my home page was entirely either videos I've already watched or channels I'm not subscribed to.

I thought the AI induced psychosis issue was relatively rare, until OpenAI turned off the sycophantic faucet that was 4o.

I’ve likely tried over 100 keyboards at this point, and I always come back to the Sofle. Finally moved over to a wireless board and got sunset switches, and I don’t think I’ll ever use another keyboard again.

I feel like people who hate on CSS have never tried to build a UI in any other programming language.

People don't understand that when the amount of money indebted passes a certain threshold, especially when held by an institution like a national government, it becomes leverage for the borrower. The lender now has incentive for the borrower to succeed, or at least sustain.

Maybe it's because I'm taking Svelte for granted, but I feel no reason to use a CSS library. Vanilla CSS in 2025 is honestly pretty great.

AI seems very far from making novel meaningful connections between disparate pieces of data. Its a metric for AGI I don't see discussed much. LLM's appear to be inherently bottle-necked by inference and the requirement of producing reasonable results. Reason is not the birthplace of novelty.

I can't recall the last time GitHub had an outage, if they ever have. I'd be pretty smug if the issue is from some AI-generated code they deployed.

Nvidia keynote tldr I should have bought more nvidia stock last year.

This week I learned why people don't extend the builtin javascript prototypes. While a simple utility method library isn't that much extra syntax to achieve the same end, it's still a bummer.

The faster AI can solve a challenge you're facing, the greater the net-negative impact it has on your competence as a programmer.

Have always felt like green is a very under-utilized color for editors, and UI in general, so I made the Fern color scheme. VSCode extension currently includes a flat dark mode and file icons (using recolored Catppuccin) marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

Working from home and t-shirts with pockets are a match made in heaven.

I know people say learning a new key layout is hard, but 10 hours on the keybr trainer learning Graphite and I'm only at 9 letters unlocked w/ and average typing speed of 35wpm. Oof. That said, when a flow hits and I get a glimpse of what fluent typing would feel like with Graphite, its motivating.

Nothing says "Save the children" like having pedophiles in the top two positions of the executive branch of the government.

Woke up today to an all out war between my better judgement and my desire to do a large refactor.

Happy 20th anniversary to Halo 2 and the obligatory "Oh god I'm old".

My ultimate olkb mouse free setup: - meh key when holding enter (right thumb) for app specific custom shortcuts - hyper key when holding escape (left pinky, left of a) for global shortcuts - aerospace wm (i3 like) - iTerm 2 w/ neovim & tmux - vimium extension in browser - obsidian in vim mode

There was a time I told my partner “I done think I’d ever get really into keyboards”. Integrated trackball, dpad, 2 scroll wheels, and some analogue flip switches for that 1969 NASA feel.

After trying the new VSCode and Copilot features for a few days, I've gotta say it really stands out vs. Cursor. Completion isn't as good, but just about everything else feels more polished and a better UX. My favorite tidbit is linked document symbols in the chat replies