The logbook of Priya Raman
I build command-line tools that explain themselves. Platform engineer by day for eight years; now full-time on the tools I kept wishing existed.
Postcards from Priya
One short email when Priya launches something new. After you confirm, you can add updates from specific products too.
Current heading
Getting bilge to 1.0: faster scans, and a dry-run mode that shows exactly what it would delete.
Ports of call
Where each one is today, and what shipped last.
brightwork runs only what changed, and prints a one-line reason for everything it skipped. No more guessing why CI was fast.
v3.2.0 — Skip reasons for every taskOBSERVED ON GITHUB · 4 MONTHS AGO
bilge scans an image layer by layer and shows what is taking up space — caches, docs, test fixtures — then cleans it if you say so.
v0.9.0 — bilge --dry-run shows every file it would remove OBSERVED ON GITHUB · 4 WEEKS AGO
Join the betaThe logbook
Releases say where they were seen. Milestones and reflections are in Priya’s own words.
September 2026
bilge · v0.9.0 Observed on GitHub
June 2026
brightwork · v3.2.0 Observed on GitHub
July 2025
“spar needs more of my time than I can give it while bilge is growing. It still works for everyone using it; I'm just not adding to it for now.”
spar Founder-reported
August 2023
The first stable release. Thank you to the forty people who tried the alphas and filed brutally honest issues.
brightwork Founder-reported
January 2023
“Eight years of platform work, one notebook full of tools I wanted. Starting with the first one.”
Founder-reported
The voyage so far
The letterbox
One short email when Priya launches something new. After you confirm, you can add updates from specific products too.