About
This is the personal site of Pablo Murad, who writes here as runawaydevil.
It is a text system: a shell, a filesystem, a reader and a gallery, running inside a fixed grid of 80 by 25 cells. Underneath it is a static site — every page has a real URL, every entry has a feed item, and nothing needs JavaScript to be read.
Why like this
Because the constraints are good ones. Eighty columns forces a sentence to be worth its width. A pager forces an argument to have parts. A palette of sixteen colours forces contrast to mean something. None of that is nostalgia; it is just a set of limits that happen to produce better decisions than no limits at all.
Also because BBSs were the first place a lot of us found other people through a wire, and the shape of them deserves better than being a wallpaper.
What gets written here
Software, mostly. Terminals, small tools, the web as it was and as it might still be, and the occasional note in Portuguese when the subject only works in Portuguese.
Contact
web https://runawaydevil.com
feed https://runawaydevil.com/feed.xml
Colophon
Built with Astro and TypeScript. The terminal, the ANSI parser, the shell, the
Markdown-to-textmode renderer and the art are written for this site rather than
pulled in; the details are in system/.
Type system for the full colophon, or finger for the short version.