Playbit

Rasmus Andersson @rsms gave an awesome key note introducing @playbit_ - a new operating system & development environment which encourages playful learning, building & sharing of local-first software on a personal scale.

Getting time zone synced between host system and playbit was more work than I expected. On the plus side, I walked away with deeper knowledge about IANA time zone data and how libc & the Linux kernel keeps track of time zone independently.

@rsnous @abanduk @navaneethmn Here's a screen recording of a quick demo. (I'm running a debug build in an emulator here which is why it's in a macOS window.)

We're about to send out the first early-access invitations to Playbit, starting with 100 randomly selected email addresses from the early-access signup form on our website. If you have the curiosity, feel brave and are comfortable with computer programming, let me know if you'd like to get access. This first release *only works if you have an arm Mac.* We essentially give you a mac app that is a virtual machine which runs Playbit (think: a video game in full-screen mode.) This makes it easy try. In future early-access releases we will increase compatibility to other architectures and platforms. It will be a *very* early release where most of the exciting and interesting features are promised for the future are absent. You can sign up for early access here: playb.it

playbit workspaces are like entire virtual machines and can be shared with other people, which means that we have to handle displays of varying size and aspect ratio. For this, we are moving away from a stacking window system to a tiling one, with a "rail"

• Please keep in mind that this is a _very_ early version. • Sign up for early access at playb.it • Video source: files.playb.it/2024-02-02-pla… • Desktop wallpaper by @maitrishahhhh • We are hiring linux-kernel & GPU hackers

For the past few months we have been able to develop playbit inside playbit [inception.gif] Although the road ahead is still long, we'd like to share a very first peek of playbit in action.

The second "embedded page" in the tweet contains a confusing illustration; here is a newer version that should have been in the tweet. (The website is up to date though.) Apologies to all the "I'll read it in an image" people out there.

We are looking to hire a contractor to help us with implementing Vulkan and WebGPU/Dawn on Linux DRM playb.it/careers/linux-…

Playbit is an endeavor to build a new operating system for software creatives. After over two years of research, Playbit is now a real company and we are hiring our founding engineers. Are you up for the challenge? playb.it/careers/

Playing around with logotype ideas for @playbit_

Okay, let's do this github.com/playbit/playsys

Built a super basic GUI for testing the Playbit CRDT "DOM" implementation (v2 in C) and it immediately helped me find bugs. Playing and experimenting is important not only for getting a feeling for things but also to lower the friction to trying stuff.

Would you be massively disappointed or curiously excited if Playbit looked like this?

👂 @rsms lays out what's he up to with @playbit_ "When I grew up in the '90s there was this idea of shareware..." (✂ from changelog.fm/449)

Doesn't look like much but celebrating a small win with the Playbit display server: Multiple textures, multiple render pipelines, camera & view transforms, depth stencils, etc. over partitioned WebGPU 🥳

this, but for good reasons. Anyhow, earlier this week I got it working! Here's a server program starting with dawn_native that opens a UNIX socket. Then a client program with just dawn_wire (internally it uses the official webgpu.h API) which connects to the socket.

@seflless @rikarends @grinich This process is similar to what I’ve done and experienced with successful and large challenges in the past. For example with Spotify we did research up from then invested an incredible effort into building two native desktop apps from scratch before getting any users to try it.

@rikarends @playbit_ Took me the whole day but finally got a client-server working. Two separate programs talking over a UNIX socket. Server runs Dawn native, client uses its "wire" protocol. This was very hard since there's ZERO documentation (not even code comments) nor any examples.

Metamuse 27 // Playful software museapp.com/podcast/27-pla… With @rsms of @playbit_ • Virtualization to create safe playspaces • Will macOS still exist in ten years? • The typography of pizza parlors