// FIELD NOTES FROM THE BLIND

Strongly Opinionated,
Weakly Typed.

Engineering write-ups from a guy who hunts ducks, dives caves, and ships side projects. If it compiles like a duck and deploys like a duck — ship it.

jason@blind: ~/marsh

$ cargo run --release
if walks_like(duck) && quacks_like(duck) {
    ship_it();  // it's a duck. don't overthink it.
}
$

BLIND_01 // ONLINE

$ ls -lt ~/posts

-rw-r--r--jun 09 silting-out-the-auth-layer.md One careless fin kick in a legacy codebase and visibility drops to zero. A field guide. -rw-r--r--jun 02 parley-devlog-01-tanks-in-the-terminal.md Rebuilding a 1993 Mac tank game in ratatui, because someone had to. -rw-r--r--may 24 rill-and-the-art-of-forgetting.md Building a memory system taught me that deleting is the hard part. -rw-r--r--may 11 rule-of-thirds-for-side-projects.md Cave divers turn around at one-third gas. Your weekend project deserves the same respect.

$ cat /etc/decoys # things floating in the water on purpose

parley

Faithful TUI remake of Bolo — networked tank combat from 1993, reborn in the terminal. Rust, ratatui, deterministic sim core.

rust

rill

A lightweight memory graph for AI agents. Durable claims, bi-temporal edges, no worklog sludge. MIT.

tunnelvision

All-in-one VPN management platform. Five native providers, DNS with ad-blocking, self-healing watchdog.

docker

diskscope

macOS disk visualizer that warm-starts in milliseconds. Notarization-free on principle.

swift

$ whoami

Engineering leader by day. By night: homelabber, cave diver, duck hunter, 3D printer wrangler, and serial side-project starter (and — occasionally — finisher).

The name? Duck typing is how dynamic languages decide what a thing is: if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. I just happen to also sit in a blind at 5 a.m. with a shotgun and a thermos.

YES. BOTH KINDS.

# house_rules.conf

ship small, ship often — every save is a live demo
archive, never delete — old systems become read-only, not graveyards
rules without the why are cargo cult — context ships with every opinion
turn around at thirds — gas, scope, and patience all run out the same way