Jeff Lindsay

What if you took the core abstractions of Plan 9 from Bell Labs and put them in a WebAssembly module? progrium.xyz/blog/2025/spir…

submit to conferences that are your people. get rejected by them. try not to write them off as fools

@GergelyOrosz The hubris of assuming people will care to read something you couldn’t bother to write.

@thesquashSH probably no good reason like everything else yea?

I feel like Golang is a cruel joke. No unions, no enums, no generics, and the concurrency primitives don't even give the guarantees that everyone assumes. Its capitalization/naming rules also force you to introduce field and method naming drift compared to every other language. Why do people use it outside of megacorps?

@buildwithparas thats why you count the lines of your deps

@progrium simplest depends on which axis you measure, fewest lines and fewest deps almost never agree

theres always room for another more or less complex implementation. there will eventually only be one simplest implementation.

Ok this is cool! Can try out @atomicdotdev in the browser thanks to @progrium 's wanix!

"Has been? LCARS is just a UX for Plan 9"

geordi has been plan 9 pilled

@shazow lost cause, give up, let burn

i mean, imagine every executable npm package included a copy of nodejs with it, why would that be a good idea?

is it a controversial take that maybe every npm package becoming a 120 megabyte bundle with bun binary runtime inlined is a terrible idea?

javascript is not taste

@ibuildthecloud unfortunately no lesson will be learned

Makes you wonder what's unique about the JavaScript ecosystem that it's getting exploited so much.

11 days in and i am aware of no party

@mschoening damn right

I hope we see an explosion of personal infrastructure, software, and hardware over the next decade. Toolmaking is very rare: chimps, crows, and a few others. Language with symbolic manipulation is even rarer. Combined, it’s just us. Jigs, stencils, scratchpads, explorable explanations, pico clouds, and home labs… Technology closer to the interests of people than corporations.

your llm generating too much code? tell it not to ya dingus. for your health

request for comments on this "fork/exec for websites" micro platform gist.github.com/progrium/b3dd0…

@ibuildthecloud even i have an electron clone

I don't get why people keep reinventing electron. The problem with electron is JavaScript, not the container. JavaScript is an absolute pig when it comes to memory and CPU. I would love for someone to really fix this for desktop apps.

lets start a movement where you avoid state complexity by avoiding a database as much as possible. we can call it baseless software

i know megabytes are huge for the web but download sizes for reference: - 273mb for vscode on mac - 100mb for virtualbox on linux - 15mb for stock linux kernel

good question! two years ago it was 64mb for everything and it did a lot less. today it is: - 2.7mb for the core wasm - 1.4mb for vm support (optional) - 2.2mb for minimal linux kernel (optional) - 3.6mb for alpine (optional, user defined) - 20mb for vscode assets (optional) so now 2.7mb minimally and at least 30mb for everything now but core still has little bit of room to shave more off and others too with tradeoffs