Atalaya — Spanish for "watchtower". A high vantage point with a clear view over the territory below.
The uncomfortable question
Open VSCode. Search "SQLite". Pick the most popular extension. Run find node_modules -type d | wc -l after installing it locally. Most of them sit somewhere between 200 and 500 packages in their transitive dependency tree, plus native code bundled per platform.
For a tool whose single job is to read a .db file.
[TODO: drop a personal anecdote here — when did supply-chain risk in editor extensions stop being abstract for you? a coworker affected, a compromised package you remember, the recent xz-utils backdoor narrative, whatever feels honest. one paragraph max.]
