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Building Iris Code in the open: a local-first code health tool for VS Code, covering JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, and Python. Release deep-dives, engineering write-ups on static analysis, secrets detection, git internals, and enforcement gates, plus the honest lessons from shipping a developer tool solo. Source analysis runs locally: your code never leaves your machine.
A VS Code extension that scores your code like a doctor scores your health. No AI, no cloud, no guessing. And that's the problem Iris was built to fix. Every developer has that moment. You open a fil
The first version of Iris answered one question: Is this file healthy? Open a file, get a score. See what's dragging it down. Fix it. That was enough to prove the idea. 1.0.0 is different. This is the
"Technical debt" is the most comforting lie in software engineering. It's a financial metaphor borrowed to make a bad decision sound like a strategic one. Real debt shows up on a statement, accrues a
Nobody sets out to ship a SQL injection. Nobody opens their editor thinking "today I'll hardcode a secret." It happens because, in the moment, you were sure the code was fine. You wrote it. You unders
