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The Most Useful Thing a Tool Can Say Is "I Don't Know" I build small tools because I like the way my head feels when I’m working a problem. One of them is file-observer : you point it at a folder, it walks every file, and it writes down what each one is —… determinism · metadata · open-source · python · tooling

Know What Your Files Are Telling On You Every file quietly records who made it, with what, and when — in a metadata layer you never see when you open it. I built a read-only scanner to read that layer honestly, and the discipline it forced on me (observe, don't interpret) is worth more than the tool. Including the most-present person in a corpus that names them nowhere. file-formats · metadata · open-source · python · tooling