RedwoodSDK

A simple framework for humans.
Server-first React, running on the Cloudflare platform.
Simple to build. Easy to maintain.

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@_mjmeyer there's a box that says "the shit list."

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@_mjmeyer on your desk dude...

[Peter Pistorius @appfactory]

https://t.co/gHoAUUfHAR - boot once, run everywhere.

A MicroVM that runs on hardware you already own.
Close your laptop and it hands off to another host.
Works across macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi. (aarch64)

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@ZubairIbnZamir @wakujs do it!

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@dillon_mulroy fancy

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tracking here: https://t.co/w22IjxIYvI

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Noodling on something new. RedwoodSDK framework can now edit itself, completely inside of workers.

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these "changes" are isolated per user. So everyone that uses your software can customize it.

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@MattieTK got rate limited :/

[Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy]

the artifacts + agents sdk + dynamic workers + isomorphic-git combo is over powered

[Kenton Varda @KentonVarda]

It's kind of crazy how much of the way we've been designing Workers over the past 9 years unexpectedly turns out to be so relevant to AI and agents. Durable Objects and lightweight isolate sandboxes are obvious big things. But there are subtler things.

Consider "bindings".

In Workers, our environment (`env` object) doesn't just contain strings. It can contain live objects, which we often call "bindings". For instance, a Workers KV binding is a live object representing a Workers KV storage namespace. Once you've configured it, you can just do:

let val = await env.MYKV.get("foo")
await env.MYKV.put("foo", "new value");

Notice: There's no connection string. No secret token that you have to pass to talk to your KV namespace. The Workers Runtime handles it for you. You just get an already-initialized client object, on which you can call methods.

You can still do everything you want to do. But you know what you can't do? Leak the secret token. Because there isn't one. A KV namespace binding fundamentally cannot be "leaked" because it's not bytes.

But over the years, a lot of people have questioned whether this really mattered. I've had people inside and outside the team say: "Why are you so weird, Kenton? Yeah sure it can't leak but now I have to learn this new way of thinking about things. No other runtime works this way so writing portable code takes extra work. I'd rather just stick to what I'm used to, and anyway I know better than to leak my environment variables."

Well, now we have AI agents writing the code and... suddenly everyone is worried about agents leaking keys. People are creating convoluted schemes to intercept the outbound traffic and inject keys in a proxy, or trying to issue very-short-lived keys so that if the agent leaks them the window of attack is short.

Ahem. Welcome, folks! We solved this 8 years ago!

Here's an old blog post -- written when I personally was still very much Not Thinking About AI -- which seems so much more relevant now: https://t.co/hHfMQpu4FH

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@Qnoox @dillon_mulroy

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Cloudflare refunded everything!

Amazing company and fast service ❤️

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@jasperfurniss @dillon_mulroy ask your agent to give it a shot and let you know!

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@Qnoox @dillon_mulroy who even writes code?!

[Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy]

trying something new out tonight

[Matt Silverlock 🐀 @elithrar]

Yep. Build the right primitives early to go faster in the long run.

We didn't bet on big VMs or k8s or traditional hyperscaler tech. Took the harder — and certainly less obvious — road to set ourselves up for the future.