Useful
Start with a need. Resist the urge to add noise.
About CompileGate
Technology can be quieter, kinder, and still ambitious.
CompileGate is an open source organization for people who want to make digital things with care.
Our vision
We think useful technology should help people keep their bearings. It should be possible to understand what a tool does, to repair it when it breaks, and to leave it when it no longer serves you.
Our projects are experiments in that direction: modest in scope, open in process, and attentive to the real conditions around them.
Our principles
Open source is a way of working.
Accessible
Make the obvious path available to more people.
Sustainable
Treat energy, attention, and maintenance as real resources.
Digital sobriety
For us, sustainability means choosing the smallest dependable stack, sending less data, designing for slower devices, and making interfaces that do not ask for constant attention.
It also means documenting decisions so the next person can understand the work without needing to guess what we meant.