Archive - Digital Onigiri

A Quiet Terminal is a Better Terminal

Retiring custom notification sounds and downloadable sound packs.

May 15 • 8Lee

Receipts, Ports, and AppleScript

Three functional bets on a Terminal-First IDE

May 1 • 8Lee

April 2026

Your Terminal Has a Browser Preview Now

It feels bigger than it is but it is kind of cool.

Apr 26 • 8Lee

Focus is a Feature

On removing three whole product surfaces. Dang.

Apr 20 • 8Lee

CMD + V Should Mean Paste

Making the obvious, obvious. Because, it's obvious.

Apr 15 • 8Lee

March 2026

YEN v1.000 is Here

The story of how YEN became a Terminal-first IDE.

Mar 30 • 8Lee

Better Terminal Image Background Placements

Now you can chose between the entire Window or Splits.

Mar 28 • 8Lee

Your Terminal Feels More Like Your World

Background images are here and that's it, that's the announce.

Mar 26 • 8Lee

A Terminal-First IDE and Earning Trust

An effective IDE is one that you can trust. Here's how I'm building it.

Mar 24 • 8Lee

Making the Terminal-First IDE Even Stronger

Semantic locations, stronger review flows, clearer trust and health reporting, repo-native execution, honest polyglot intelligence, and more.

Mar 21 • 8Lee

The Terminal IS the IDE Now

YEN has a Terminal-first IDE stack with local LSP workflows, encrypted sharing, devcontainer control, deterministic VS Code import, review tooling, and…

Mar 17 • 8Lee

Hardening Speech-to-Text in Your Terminal

Obsessing over UX and how Option + Space should feel really, really boring.

Mar 13 • 8Lee

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