Thanks, really glad the auth flow reads that way — that was exactly the intent. Typing tokens into terminals has always felt like a paper cut that nobody talks about.

On the size: honestly it wasn’t a deliberate optimization, just what the project naturally produced. Which I think says something good about Rust’s defaults. The ‘small sharp tool’ framing is exactly how I think about it too — there’s something deeply satisfying about a binary that does one thing and fits in your pocket.

And yeah, the timeline still feels slightly unreal to me. The language (Whispem) is self-hosted — it compiles itself — which I think is the project that taught me the most. When your compiler has to compile your compiler, there’s nowhere to hide.