Eizen
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The idea

In linear algebra, eigen names what a transformation can’t turn

Apply a matrix to a vector and it usually ends up pointing somewhere new. An eigenvector is one of the exceptions. The matrix can make it longer or shorter, and it stays on the same line. The number that says how much longer is its eigenvalue, written with a lambda.

Coding agents are transformations too. They take a repository and return a different one, many times an hour. We wanted a tool that keeps the things that should survive that: which branch, whose request, what reason.

The word eigen is German for "own", which also fits an app that gives each thread its own folder, its own port and its own browser.

Star trails around a fixed point

A long exposure: every star moves and the axis does not

λ = 2.5λ = 0.5

Before the matrix

In motion

Red arrows keep their heading

These arrows start on a circle and a real matrix acts on them. Its eigenvalues are 2.5 and 0.5, so one red pair grows and the other shrinks, and neither leaves its line.

The mark

How the logo is drawn

The logo is three bars with lengths in the ratio 38, 24 and 38. All three share one slope, and their left ends fall on one straight line. That slope is 0.325 across for every 1 up, and every arrow and slanted edge on this site uses it.

Built on

Open source underneath

Eizen began as a Tauri port of an open-source project by Nazmus Sayad, released under the MIT license, and it keeps that project's approach of using the same sessions as the CLIs.

The site's type is Newsreader, Schibsted Grotesk and JetBrains Mono.

Credits

Photographs and footage

The sky on this site is real. Everything below is used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.

WorkCreditSource
Star trails above the Blanco telescope (video)CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. MunizagaSource
Starry sky above the Visitor Center telescope (video)KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. SparksSource
Milky Way and Moon over SOAR (video)NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. HorálekSource
Lights of the Night ShowInternational Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. PollardSource
Star Trails Above Gemini NorthInternational Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. MatsopoulosSource
Stars Swirl above Gemini NorthNOIRLab/NSF/AURASource
Trails Through the Night SkyKPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURASource
Trails Near and FarCTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/D. MunizagaSource
Rubin Observatory Under the Milky WayHernán StockebrandSource
Milky Way ReflectionsRubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/DOE/NSF/AURA/B. QuintSource
Milky Way Shines over Snowy La SillaESO/José Francisco SalgadoSource

Colour on the Blanco and SOAR footage has been adjusted, and clips are trimmed and shortened. CC BY 4.0