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Ballast Development

From the rigging to the landfall.

ABOUT // OPERATOR

Systems you can hold

My journey through the digital seas — a journal of thoughts, tools, and solutions. Ballast Development is where I ship open-source projects and write about the craft.

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BAY 01 · RIGGING

Tools from the hold

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UNIT 01

bump

Automatic versioning — banal updates move programmatically.

Rust CLI GitHub Actions

REPO

UNIT 02

reflect

rsync’s little brother — a library and CLI, no daemon.

Zig CLI C ABI

UNIT 03

sinkd

Deployable cloud file synchronization across the digital seas.

inotify Rust zenoh rsync

REPO

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LOG

Latest entries

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FEATURED 2026-06-01 4 min read

Ship now, not later

Perfection is the enemy of good enough

shipping product feedback

14 JUN 2026 krakjn 4 min read

3 Kinds of Technical Debt

Borrowing against yourself never really works out

technical-debt engineering architecture

08 MAY 2026 krakjn 1 min read

Embark

Trying out JavaScript, to write this site

meta web-dev javascript

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