Jeff Lindsay

Influential indie dev. Early @twilio, prototyped @docker, created @dokku, started @shdh + @hackerdojo, original admin @tigsource, "invented webhooks", etc

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

What if you took the core abstractions of Plan 9 from Bell Labs and put them in a WebAssembly module?
https://t.co/SZXaJplgJa

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@joshu i thought youve seen this!

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

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

[Hangbiao @justwasm]

@progrium

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@kevinswiber lost me on the second half but the episode premises for this are crazy. i should check it out. ran longer than Eerie Indiana

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

value creation is fine, but have you considered higher order value creation?

instead of building the thing, build better primitives to build the thing that can also be used to build other things

if you build without generativity in computing, you are making computing more complex AND more sterile. you could even say you are just making noise

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@kevinswiber i do accept that curses are blessings and blessings are curses. there are no wishes without the monkey paw

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@ibuildthecloud jazz!

[0xE  @enol.app @EOlonov]

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.

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@buildwithparas sounds right

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@kevinswiber hard not to think of it as a curse even if it is fun and exciting

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@kevinswiber you are correct!

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

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:

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@kevinswiber yea. been there. still there. but i'd rather not make noise.

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

i could race an LLM with that as a prompt. but i'd be done before it even figured out where to start

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@anselm_io 12 minutes!

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@navanchauhan @d_philla Makes me think of this: .--. .-. --. .-.-.- ... .-.-.- --. -.-- -..-. --

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@soederpop this is the way

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@soederpop hm. you want web app integrations, make webhooks. you want an open source PaaS, make docker. you want linux in browser, make wanix. etc.

the latter enables the original intent and more

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@navanchauhan @d_philla Makes me think of this: .--. .-. --. .-.-.- ... .-.-.- --. -.-- -..-. --

[Jeff Lindsay @progrium]

@soederpop