ensure, not start
One verb brings up the whole topology, in dependency order. Run it again and it does nothing — the diff is empty. The duplicate servers that pile up everywhere else literally can't happen here.
live demo · alongside the terminal
dev — the topology, reconciled
A different desh surface. Not a terminal this time — a controller. You declare a small topology of services, press one button, and the system reconciles the running world to match it. The servers are simulated (desh runs on a Worker — we say so up front), but the record-keeping is real: every start, every line of output, every approval is an event on an append-only log, and the tiles are just a view of it. See the terminal demo →
a crash outlives its process
Output lands on the log as a hash, never inline. When a service dies, its last words are still there — scroll the tile, scrub the timeline. The server died; the crash didn't.
declare where it runs
Each service says its target. Local is instant; a remote one asks once, and the approval is a fact on the log. Same mechanism whether the ask comes from here or from a link.
time traveltip
webdown
needs api
— not started —apidown
needs pds
— not started —pdsdown
— not started —