Influential indie dev. Early @twilio, prototyped @docker, created @dokku, started @shdh @hackerdojo, original admin @tigsource, "invented webhooks", etc
Joined February 2007
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7 May 2025
What if you took the core abstractions of Plan 9 from Bell Labs and put them in a WebAssembly module?
progrium.xyz/blog/2025/spiri…
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Jun 11
welcome to neocomputing
just now had the harrowing realization that today's youths are getting into tmux in the same way they are embracing iPod Shuffles as hair clips
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Jun 6
industry: "as per usual platform playbook, we'll make coding agents, see what people make, then make our own and sell it to them"
programmers: "oh sick coding agents.. im gonna maaaaaaaake ... my own coding agent"
industry: "they want coding agents! make more coding agents!"
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Jun 6
its funny but it also sounds like my internal reasoning model
Jun 6
Yo dawg, look at what builder I can build with this builder. It can build even more builders that can build builders!
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Jun 6
we were all given a magic lamp and everybody is just wishing for more hands to jerk off with and posting about how to jerk off with so many hands
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Jun 6
"easy to find, easy to reason about, easy to wire up" ... yes, only important now because of agents. what a revelation
Jun 5
The new moat in the agent era is being the tool agents reach for.
A coding agent doesn’t reinvent a database. It wires up Supabase.
The best devtools companies will make themselves obvious to agents: easy to find, easy to reason about, easy to wire up.
Devtools are entering a golden age, but only for companies that realize they’re selling to agents now, not just humans.
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Jun 5
a wanix system tied to web auth to give you a persistent home directory backed by r2 in a linux vm in your browser
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Jun 5
same diff what i said the other day
how to be good at your job
- realize this one thing is actually made up of two separate things
- realize instead of solving the direct problem you can solve a broader problem
- instead of implementing thing, implement other thing that makes it easier to implement thing
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Jun 4
jfc just use HTMLCanvasElement.captureStream()
Write HTML. Render video. Built for agents:
github.com/heygen-com/hyperf…
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Jun 4
like its a little more than that but is it really HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS more? WTF.
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TIL Plan 9 doesnt actually support _recursive_ unions! you can only union one dir at a time. because i _thought_ they were recursive, that's how wanix does unions, enabling overlayfs style layered filesystems. just bind multiple trees on top of each other
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Jeff Lindsay retweeted
Jun 4
absolutely 💯 market was not there yet. i mean look at dabbledb. it was literally (a better) airtable 7 years before airtable
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Jeff Lindsay retweeted
May 26
The post-code-scarcity advantage is not producing more software. It is producing less software with more proof, more restraint, more observability, more reversibility, and more preserved understanding.
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wanix is so good now i was like "damn i gotta set up the vm and a linux environment" with older wanix in mind, but then oh, right: copy-paste 4 lines of html and boom linux
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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:
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i could race an LLM with that as a prompt. but i'd be done before it even figured out where to start
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Jun 4
Makes me think of this: .--. .-. --. .-.-.- ... .-.-.- --. -.-- -..-. --
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