网 wǎng 🕸️
net, n. — an open-work fabric of threads; a network that connects many things.
网：名词。用线交织成的东西；把许多事物连起来的网络。
i'd made a server in the notes early on. in october i made one that actually did something. a kanban board in async rust where changes on one page show up on every connected page at once. i built it to figure out websockets and real-time web, with no framework in the way
websockets
the interesting part was the live line. a change on one screen reached every screen in the same instant. it wasn't a page that refreshes when you ask it to — the server pushed. that idea of staying connected, of state that travels on its own, stuck with me. shared state across a network, held safely by the threads rust had taught me about
gpt in the terminal
same month, a rust cli for talking to gpt models straight from the terminal. no browser. the conversation lived right where the code lived. it was just fun to have a chat sitting next to my editor, but it showed me a chat could do real work from the command line
网 is the net. by the end of the year the net was real to me — things that connect, state that moves, a voice that works alongside the code