Zero-Cloud Engineering: Deploying OmniAware (OA) and FYI (lsi)
"A binary should answer what you need without forcing you to decode modes, wrestle shell escapes, or offload context to remote runtimes."
The toolchain expands. Modern systems drown everyday terminal tasks in bloat, telemetry, and unreadable defaults. Two utilities written strictly in bare-metal Rust are now deployed to GitHub: OmniAware (OA) for persistent input capture, and FYI (lsi)—a modern, zero-dependency ls and tree replacement engineered for Linux and WSL2.

OMNIAWARE (OA) // THE PERSISTENT CAPTURE ENGINE
Desktop environments routinely treat clipboard history either as ephemeral RAM garbage or an excuse to phone home with telemetry. OA is an ultra-fast, local-first scratchpad and clipboard pipeline written to eliminate friction.
- Local Data Sovereignty: Keystrokes, snippets, and clipboard buffers reside entirely in local storage. Zero network exposure, zero telemetry.
- Bare-Metal Footprint: Compiled directly in Rust. No Electron bloat, minimal memory footprint, and sub-millisecond response times.
- High-Speed Workflow: Operates as an instant scratch buffer designed to capture technical thoughts before context evaporates.
ROADMAP: THE ANDROMEDA M31 MERGE
OA is currently deployed in standalone mode, but this is an intermediary node. Development is actively consolidating the capture mechanics of OA with our local writing system, Luna Editor. Once combined, the unified single-binary environment will operate under the moniker: ANDROMEDA M31.
- Source:
https://github.com/SGJohansson/Omniaware - Binary Payload: [SYS_PAYLOAD: omniaware_latest_amd64.tar.gz]
FYI (lsi) // THE INTELLIGENT DIRECTORY INSPECTOR
Nine times out of ten, standard ls wastes cognitive overhead. Sizes demand chained flags (-lh), permissions force mental decoding of octal masks or mode strings (-rwxr-x---), and WSL mangles path handling.
FYI compiles down to a single static Rust binary (musl) invoked via lsi (ls + info).
It replaces standard directory listings and tree with immediate, actionable context.

- Heat-Map Sizing by Default: Binary file sizes are permanently visible and color-graded from cool blue (
< 1K) up to bold orange (≥ 1T), sharing a clean right-aligned column. - Effective Permission Rendering: Name colors reflect what you can actually do right now—verified against
faccessat(…, AT_EACCESS)to respect root, group permissions, and local ACLs. - Native WSL2 Path Recovery: Eliminates
wslpathoverhead. Unquoted Windows paths pasted directly into the shell (where Bash strips backslashes) are dynamically resolved against the real disk structure via/proc/self/mountinfo. - Deep Filtering & History: Filter outputs on the fly without breaking pipelines (
--ext=mkv+large,--eext=log,txt). Includes a 50-entry deep buffer replay (lsi -b) that re-renders layouts dynamically for current terminal geometry. - Shell Integration (
wcd/wcp): Native shell helpers allow immediate directory hopping across Windows and WSL mountpoints without escaping quotes.
# Direct recursive inspection with depth limitation
lsi ~/ -r -L 2
# Instant filter: Hide logs and text files
lsi docs/ --eext=log,txt
- Source:
https://github.com/SGJohansson/FYI - Binary Payload: [SYS_PAYLOAD: fyi-x86_64-linux-musl.tar.gz]
Audit the sources, compile on bare metal, and strip unnecessary bloat out of your workflow. Stay terminal.