Logger-TXT started life as a shell script over a decade ago. It does one small thing: append a timestamped line to a text file so I can remember what I did on that Tuesday two weeks ago. I rewrote it in Go recently, and the surface reason was capabilities. Date ranges, type and project filters, reverse scanning so a decade-deep log file stays fast.
That’s not really why I did it, though. The rewrite was an excuse to practise designing an AI-native command-line tool: one a coding agent can pick up and drive correctly, with no help from me, on the first try.
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