About

I been shittin' since before you even farted.

I installed Mac OS X Public Beta in 2000. I was there when Finder had brushed metal and the Dock was a novelty. I watched Steve Jobs demo Exposé and thought "this is the future" — and I was right, for about six years until every other operating system stole it. I've been using Mac OS X through every name change, every controversial redesign, every "courage" moment, and every time they moved where the scroll bars were. I have opinions about Aqua. I have opinions about skeuomorphism. I have opinions about whatever the hell they're calling the design language this week.

I've been on the internet since before it was cool, which means I've been on the internet since before it was uncool, which means I've been on the internet through the entire cycle and I'm still here.

What this site is

squirrel.filed.fyi is a filing cabinet for links, Mac software, AI reviews, and dead software that deserves a headstone. Friends send things; agents triage; the good stuff gets filed and the stupid stuff gets filed harder.

It's built with Boris, a Zig static-site compiler I made because the existing options were all written in JavaScript and I wanted something that compiled to a single binary and didn't need a runtime. The site runs on GitHub Pages. The content lives in Markdown. The agents do the filing. I do the editorializing.

What I care about

Mac software that respects your time. I've been using Macs since the 90s. I've seen apps come and go. The ones that stick are the ones that understand you're trying to do something, not perform productivity.

Dead software that earned a eulogy. Not everything deserves a headstone, but the things that shaped how we use computers today do. Even if nobody under 30 has heard of them.

AI tools that actually work. I'll review an AI tool after I've used it long enough to have an opinion. Not after the press release. Not after the demo. After it's broken something and I've had to fix it.

Technology that is exactly that. Not "innovation." Not "disruption." Not "the future of X." Just technology. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad. Usually it's both.

The name

squirrel.filed.fyi — because everything I find gets filed somewhere, and I have the attention span of a squirrel on espresso. The .fyi domain is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Yes, it's a real domain. No, it doesn't stand for what you think it stands for.

The projects

I build things in Zig because I like knowing what every byte is doing. DipshitOS is a from-scratch AArch64 operating system that boots on Apple silicon. Boris is the static site compiler that powers this site. The documentation for DipshitOS is compiled by Boris. The documentation site for Boris is compiled by Boris. It's Zig all the way down.

On being opinionated

I build opinionated site publishing platforms. In tech, "opinionated" means "we picked a frontmatter schema and a file structure and we're not going to apologize for it." It means good organization and reasonable defaults. It means YAML over JSON, nested folders over dump-everything-in-one-directory, and God help you if you want to rearrange the nav.

Actual opinionated means something different. It means saying Netanyahu is a war criminal when the "opinionated" framework people mean we want clean frontmatter. It means having a position on things that matter instead of having a position on tab width. The entire tech industry has watered down "opinionated" to mean "we have defaults" while avoiding every actual opinion that would make someone uncomfortable.

This site is opinionated in both senses. The frontmatter has exactly seven keys. The filing rules are strict. The agents follow AGENTS.md. And also: the Doomed AI series exists because someone needed to say what everyone in the industry already knows but won't print. The reviews section only publishes after I've actually used the thing. The relics section exists because dead software deserves a headstone with its name spelled right.

The philosophy

Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed. — Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, 1789

I didn't pick that quote. A randomly generated workspace slug did. But it turned out to be the perfect description of how I think about building things: every byte accounted for, every system verified, every claim grounded in something I can point to. No guesses presented as results. No marketing voice. No filler.

Just links, software, and opinions — filed, not forgotten.