Clarity over cleverness
I prefer designs that are easy to understand and maintain over abstractions that are impressive but difficult to reason about.
About
I build practical developer tools with Rust and care about making software easier to understand, trust, and use.
A little context
Support informs how I build.
I’m Jared Bathen, a technical support specialist and Rust-focused developer based in Iowa. Working close to users has made me especially interested in developer experience: the small design and tooling decisions that determine whether software feels clear or frustrating.
I’m drawn to problems where structure matters—command-line tools, workflows, interfaces, and systems that benefit from being explicit and predictable. This site is where I document those experiments, including the reasoning, tradeoffs, and lessons behind them.
Working principles
How I approach the work
Visible behavior
Good tools should make their state, effects, and failure modes clear rather than asking users to guess what happened.
Small, deliberate steps
I like to build incrementally, test assumptions early, and keep changes reversible until the right direction becomes clear.
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I’m always interested in practical developer tools and the systems that make them pleasant to use.