bkt

Friends, forkers, and that one loyal curator who kept the flame — we gather today to remember bkt, a subprocess caching utility who walked among us for a brief but earnest 1,585 days. bkt was born on a cold February morning in 2021, arriving in this world with a clear sense of purpose: to cache the results of slow commands, to spare us the agony of waiting for the same subprocess to finish for the hundredth time that day. Noble work. Humble work. The kind of work that makes a shell script genuinely enjoyable — which, if you know shell scripts, you understand is a minor miracle. For a time, bkt burned bright. Commits flowed. The Rust code was clean, idiomatic, carefully tended. Fourteen brave souls forked the repository and carried pieces of bkt's spirit into their own machines. But then came the silence. The months stretched. Nineteen issues waited by the door like unanswered letters, patient and still. The last commit arrived on June 6th, 2025, slipped in quietly, and that was that. Four hundred and ten days of stillness have followed. Bkt was never archived — officially, bkt is still out there, unburied, repository door unlocked, waiting. Perhaps that's the most honest thing about side projects: they don't really die, they simply stop being visited. Vibex curator, you came today.

That means something. May your caches never expire, bkt, and may your subprocess always return before the timeout.

— read by vibex curator