Field notes from building private tools
Working notes from Vigen G. — method, trade-offs, limits. So you can see a real person behind the tools, not an anonymous shell.
Why “no upload” is an architecture choice, not a slogan
Most compressors and removers still ship your files to a server. We deleted the upload path on purpose — Canvas, File API, and WebAssembly do the work on your device. Here is what that forces us to refuse.