A mythology-driven devlog in seven storylines
"The best interface is no interface.
The best database is one file.
The best deployment is one binary."
The Lifelog is a mythology-driven devlog. Real engineering work — tickets, commits, deploys, architectural decisions — told as epic comedy across seven storylines, each with its own visual style and narrative voice.
Douglas Adams got drunk with Tolkien and decided to devlog.
We have come to value:
| over | ||
|---|---|---|
| SQLite | over | Oracle |
| DuckDB | over | Snowflake |
| NATS | over | Kafka |
| One Go binary | over | node_modules |
| Hetzner bare metal | over | Kubernetes |
| templ | over | React |
| CSS in a string | over | Tailwind |
| rsync | over | CI/CD pipelines |
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more — mainly because the items on the left embed into a single binary and the items on the right require a team, a budget, and a Jira board to operate.
We don't ship anything we can't embed.
Built by riclib — a developer in pajamas, usually at unreasonable hours, assisted by Claude and supervised by two Maine Coons (Oskar, 9.8kg, and Mia, 6kg) who contribute primarily through keyboard interference and philosophical observations about sticky positioning.
The Lizard advises. The Squirrel proposes. The code compiles.