- How do I know it chose me?
- It will try to kill you.
I am happy to announce that I have finally found a valid usecase for llms
naming my functions
Restic @restic is such an unreasonably good piece of open source software... https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
It works reliably, quickly, the documentation is stellar and you can feel that CLI was carefully designed to address the needs of every user. It's low-level enough that you can integrate Restic with other tools or scripts, but it remains understandable for people without a PhD in filesystems.
It's one of those few tools that I know I can come back to at any time and it will still work.

For 2026 I decided to go back to the basics, and revisit some of the foundational stuff that makes SilverBullet work. Making it more robust and performant. For 2.4 this is primarily about the indexer (on top of which queries are built, among other things). I’ve run various experiments trying to speed this up, and for my own space (which is now approximating about 2k pages) I managed to roughly speed this up a clean index by 200%. As I did this work, I also added tests to allow to make more impr...