Something is
being made here.

Hirusta is the Basque word for clover. I'm Eneko: software engineer in Barcelona, Basque by origin. Days go to TypeScript and multi-agent pipelines; evenings to Rust, small tools nobody asked for, two encyclopedias and a bag of film.

I like things that are small, boring to run and built to last. Zero dependencies when I can. Written by hand when it matters.

Two encyclopedias, kept by hand. One in Basque, one in Spanish. No machine wrote a line of them.

The Arcana

Each tool has a Basque name. Small, mostly Rust, zero dependencies when I can manage it. Built so agents can read them too.

Film

I shoot film. Not for the look, for the process: a roll of 36, no screen, and a week until I know what I got. Light touches silver and silver keeps it. I still find that unreasonable, so here is the whole thing, grain by grain.

silver halide · scroll to run the process
load gelatin and silver bromide. a frame of film, in the dark.
expose

Photons knock electrons loose. A few silver atoms form on each crystal that was hit. Invisible. The latent image.

develop

The developer finds those specks and grows them into black metallic silver. More light, more silver. Tone follows exposure.

fix

Unexposed halide dissolves away. What stays is the negative. Then water, then patience.