• September 28, 2026

  Rewriting an entire UI in Rust

  What happens if you replace 24k lines of web UI with a pile of Rust stuff? Let us find out.

• July 30, 2026

  How Git Cherry Tree is made

  How I make decisions while working on the client, and the process of making it.

• January 4, 2026

  Rendering Million-Line Diffs at 60fps

  Loading, scrolling, wrapping, selecting, and syntax-highlighting a million-line diff at 60fps, without dropping a frame.

• December 27, 2025

  Making Git Status Even Faster

  Part 2 of the git status adventure: NT APIs, cache-line-aligned structures, and a homemade arena take the Linux repo from 137ms to 71ms.

• December 20, 2025

  The Fastest Git Status in the World (on Windows!)

  How Git Cherry Tree statuses the Linux kernel repo in 137ms on Windows, beating git, libgit2, and gitoxide.

• December 13, 2025

  Building a Git Client in Rust, With No Rust Experience

  Six months of Rust, zero prior experience, and a git client that opens the Linux kernel repo. Notes from the journey.