I’ve been working on a storage system for a long time. Longer than I planned. Longer than was healthy.
It started as “just an allocator experiment.”
Then it grew a compression engine.
Then repair logic.
Then identity.
Then tags.
Then time slicing.
Then a namespace.
At some point I realized I wasn’t building components anymore — I had built the whole substrate.
Not a directory tree.
A flat, identity-first namespace with semantic tags, time and generation slicing, CRC defense, extension chains, and deterministic resolution.
No public API. No SDK.
It just speaks POSIX now.
I’m releasing the namespace engine today as a public reference implementation. It’s spec-locked, test-covered, and boring in the best way.
There’s no product.
No startup.
No VC story.
Just a filesystem that finally works the way I always wished they did.
I’m tired.
But I’m also weirdly calm about it.
If anyone wants to read, criticize, or tell me I reinvented something from 1987 — I’m ready.
phboot•2h ago
It started as “just an allocator experiment.” Then it grew a compression engine. Then repair logic. Then identity. Then tags. Then time slicing. Then a namespace.
At some point I realized I wasn’t building components anymore — I had built the whole substrate.
Not a directory tree. A flat, identity-first namespace with semantic tags, time and generation slicing, CRC defense, extension chains, and deterministic resolution.
No public API. No SDK. It just speaks POSIX now.
I’m releasing the namespace engine today as a public reference implementation. It’s spec-locked, test-covered, and boring in the best way.
There’s no product. No startup. No VC story. Just a filesystem that finally works the way I always wished they did.
I’m tired. But I’m also weirdly calm about it.
If anyone wants to read, criticize, or tell me I reinvented something from 1987 — I’m ready.