For years, my workflow was fragmented. I just wanted to pull specific data from a website,
but I always ended up chaining curl, grep, sed, and jq. It
worked, but it was incredibly brittle—every time a website changed its markup even slightly,
my entire pipeline broke.
As my focus shifted deep into systems engineering, I realized my tools weren't keeping up. The solution was actually hiding in my own archives: an old, abandoned web-based link shortener called LinkBytes that I had built as an early learning project. It had sat gathering dust for years.
I stripped away the web interface, completely redesigned the core engine, and forged it into a lightning-fast tool built entirely for the command line. I built this because the best tools feel painfully obvious in retrospect; it is the exact, frictionless tool I wish I had five years ago.