Jeff Lindsay
@progrium.bsky.social
hack·er: a builder and friend of the computer https://progrium.xyz
What if the future of the web borrowed ideas from a decades-old operating system? 🌐 In this session, @progrium.bsky.social explores how Plan 9 from Bell Labs can be reimagined with Go and WebAssembly, bringing classic systems design into the browser. 🎟️ gophercon.com #GopherConOrBust #golang
make a system of primitives so powerful that it would be foolish not to reach for them by default
Announcing Wanix Elements! Now you can build virtual compute systems with just HTML. Some broad use cases: - let people try your CLI before downloading - build your own browser OS or dev env - make old apps/games work on the web - explore and play with plan 9 concepts Link below.
they trained millennials how to use computers too good and napster basically flattened an entire industry. I think that's why they don't even want you to touch your phone's file system now, they can't let kids become that powerful again
a wanix system tied to web auth to give you a persistent home directory backed by r2 in a linux vm in your browser
its cool when you're like "now i want an r2 bucket as a filesystem, served over 9p, over websocket, mounted as a filesystem on a webpage" and without wanting this before, you already have all the pieces built:
Opening titles of "Dealies", the new animated series by the creators of "Common Side Effects" and "Scavenger's Reign". Coming to Netflix in 2027.
Catsuka@catsuka.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Dealies", the new animated series by Green Street Pictures (Common Side Effects, Scavenger’s Reign), for Netflix. Showrunners: Joe Bennett & Ted Travelstead. The story of employees at a big box store. I'm so happy that I made a custom poster using the first key visual 😃
Other people have already posted about it here, but I have now released the Virtual OS Museum. Sorry for the issues with downloads before; the server I was hosting it on had a failing drive. I now have torrents and direct downloads from archive.org linked on the site virtualosmuseum.org
The Virtual OS Museum
Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.
virtualosmuseum.org
95% of programmers do not understand this and/or have stockholm syndrome with the mess. you can SHOW THEM the nice pretty stack of fewer pieces and they're like "but where are the red blocks?"
pretty easy now to write a program that exports a synthetic filesystem in wanix
wanix 0.4 teaser after finally finishing this iteration www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sudl...
wanix 0.4 teaser.avi
YouTube video by Jeff Lindsay
youtube.com
this month is the 20th anniversary of webhooks. somebody throw a party
Do you like the music from Scrubbin' Trubble? Do you like me? The soundtrack is on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms. And today is Bandcamp Friday which means all your $upport goes directly to ME! hryx.bandcamp.com/album/scrubb...
Scrubbin' Trubble, by hryx
22 track album
hryx.bandcamp.com
⭐ New talk! Watch / read / visually skim here: andymatuschak.org/tat Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.
Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies
On coding agents, malleable software, and the future of interface invention
andymatuschak.org
Someone ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii. “Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list.” [bryankeller.github.io]
Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) running natively on the Nintendo Wii
bryankeller.github.io
Apptron can of course be used for instant dev environments. Unlike Codespaces/CodeSandbox/Replit it's entirely open source and runs entirely in-browser. No cloud compute necessary, making it cost almost nothing to run! Check out the final demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRAQ...
Instant project development environments with Apptron
YouTube video by Jeff Lindsay
youtube.com
this year is the 20th anniversary of webhooks and my campaign to show the world what could be possible if you just fucking listen to me
This is a big one. Apptron also lets you embed Linux software on **any web page**. Great for software playgrounds, demos, etc. No separate Wasm toolchain like emscripten necessary! Check out the demo (pls like): www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGOH...
Embed Linux software on the web using Apptron
YouTube video by Jeff Lindsay
youtube.com
Apptron 0.7 just released with tons of new features and fixes. Most notably, console mode for embeds and public sites that work offline. Some quick demo videos incoming... github.com/tractordev/a...
Release v0.7 · tractordev/apptron
Offline Sites, Console Embeds, and Much More This is our biggest release yet! Lots of fixes and UX improvements, but also lots of new little features here and there. For example, the /web/dl mount ...
github.com
Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world
inside of you are two wolves but one wolf is very sad and one wolf is very tired
