001
Small tools should stay small
Notes on choosing the simplest useful shape for scripts, utilities and one-purpose projects.
Tools
Practice
Practice
Projects / tools / observations
Useful things, kept simple.
A working notebook for small projects, open tools and practical ideas worth keeping around.
FN / 06
No.
Recent entries
Filed under
002
A plain-text project log
A lightweight way to record decisions, unfinished ideas and the reason a project changed direction.
Notes
Method
Method
003
Interfaces for quiet software
Fewer states, fewer interruptions and enough information to understand what a system is doing.
Design
Systems
Systems
004
Keep the useful parts visible
A reminder that documentation works best when it lives close to the thing it describes.
Open work
Documentation
Documentation
Margin note
Build for clarity first. Complexity can always be added later; removing it is usually harder.
Notebook
Open
Current theme
Simple systems
Edition
06 / 2026