Allie Bayless allisonhere

`> whoami`

allie@github:~$ whoami

Allie Bayless
Software designer · developer · lifelong tinkerer

Part of the original SimCity development team in the late ’80s.

After a long career in software, I'm back building things again — Linux tools, Rust apps, TUIs, AI experiments, and weird little ideas that probably shouldn't exist but do.

I've been around software long enough to remember when a small team could build something strange, ship it, and accidentally help define a genre.

I'm still chasing that feeling.

`> currently-building`

I like software that feels fast, focused, useful, and a little different.

🖥️ TUI

Terminal-first interfaces

Fast. Keyboard driven. No unnecessary chrome.

🦀 Rust

Native applications

Small binaries. Fast tools. Weird ideas.

🤖 AI

Local models & agents

LLMs, coding agents, experiments and automation.

🐧 Linux

Desktop & system tools

Wayland, Hyprland, and things the OS forgot.

🧰 Homelab

Self-hosted everything

Docker, Proxmox, services and infrastructure.

💡 Experiments

what if we...

Usually where the fun starts.

`> projects`

Things currently escaping the lab

	Project
📝	anote	Notes, ideas and experiments
⚡	zellit	Terminal-focused software
🧪	alogi	Software experiments and tooling
🛠️	assho	Another project from the lab

STATUS

[████████████████████░░░░] building

There are usually more projects in progress than finished.

That's part of the fun.

`> philosophy`

Software should be useful.
Software should be fast.
Software should have personality.

And building it should still be fun.

I like applications that feel like somebody actually cared how they work.

Not another dashboard because everything needs a dashboard.

Not another Electron app because it was convenient.

Sometimes the right interface is a terminal.

Sometimes it's native.

Sometimes it's something nobody has tried yet.

`> stack`

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                              │
│  OS          Linux                           │
│  Language    Rust                            │
│  UI          Terminal / TUI / Native         │
│  Infra       Docker / Proxmox / Homelab      │
│  AI          Local LLMs / Agents             │
│  Philosophy  Build the interesting thing.    │
│                                              │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

`> currently-experimenting-with`

$ ls ~/ideas

terminal-first-apps/
rust-native-tools/
local-ai/
coding-agents/
linux-desktop/
self-hosted-everything/
probably-a-bad-idea/

Most of my projects start with:

"I wonder if..."

`> still building_`

The best part of software was never the software. It was making something that didn't exist yesterday.

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_{old enough to remember when software came in boxes · curious enough to keep building it}

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