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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 21h

Who else is going to Modal's Runtime event on Thursday in SF? I'll be there most of the day, dipping in and out for meetings occasionally. If you're around and wanna chat virtualization, hypervisors, s*nd*box*s, impending microvm and container obsolescence, drop me a line

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The worse the Infra Founder is dressed, the better the tech, I don't make the rules

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What exactly should the next public cloud look like? For agents? Agents and humans? A layer on top of existing entities? Or not? There are so many questions from DX to AgentX(?) to primitives, to orchestration, to shape, to zones, to hardware, to.. everything.

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've always thought Endianness as it's defined, should be reversed, at least with how we read the env signals: Little-endian = 1234 Big-endian = 4321 ^ literally from POSIX spec Am I wrong that each order should be reversed to make more semantic sense in these defs? or am I mixed up here?

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Watching the MicroVM Fork Resellers tear each other to shreds because they virtually (see what i did there) sell the exact same undifferentiated product

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There are certain things in tech that have such history, and gravity, that they seem fundamental, to the point it's impossible to imagine the industry without them. AWS is an example, UNIX/Linux is another. There are more.

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After talking with dozens of people in the Sandbox Infra space recently here in beautiful SF this last week, it now seems only fair that we change the name of the current tiff to "MicroVM Fork Reseller War", or worse, "Hardened Container War" just to be precise.

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For the foreseeable future, I'll be spending every morning at this Blue Bottle in SF, at 2nd and South Park St, in SOMA in SF, working on some new infra experiments, existing projects, having meetings, and drinking coffee.

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Why, yes, I am drinking a Bloody Mary discussing ISA research with a colleague from graduate school, on this exquisite afternoon by the water in SF. Subversive and shocking for this city, I know, esp in this current era; but fear not, we will persist.

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I can't explain how rare the combination of deep expertise in: - Base linux internals - VMMs/hypervisors - New and developing (AND historical) virt tech - UX Design - actual low-level networking, even just fundamentals

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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 09/09/2026

I wrote about what I've been up to with my new programming language! Zena targets WebAssembly GC, with a TypeScript-like syntax, sound type system, and lots of cool features like pattern matching, async cancellation, borrow checking, WASI integration, and more! justinfagnani.com/2026/09/09/z...

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Zena: A new Wasm-first programming language

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Any sandbox companies (or providers) actually commoditizing their complements (well) these days? Or positioning so? Or that kinda strategy lost to history and never studied like so many other things

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm making a recent project public: Weave: Universal Live-Migration and Snapshot/Restore for WebAssembly, across many of the most supported runtimes and hosts, including Web, Server-Side, and Bare-Metal. github.com/dphilla/weave

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GitHub - dphilla/weave: Live Migration, Snapshot/Restore for WebAssembly.

Live Migration, Snapshot/Restore for WebAssembly. - dphilla/weave

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I personally think we should be able to rewind, pause, snapshot, restore, live/spaced-migrate any compute, across heterogeneous underlying environments, as a standard facility. and i think we're just getting the first hints of how important this will be for the next gen of infra

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ok, astra ultra has been fun, code quality is.. different? I'm not sure if I have a full picture on what it really does in terms of decision making with hard probs, but it feels a little unwieldy with hard multivariate problems and how it addresses them via abstraction.

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

can anyone recommend a good tcp to webrtc bridge/clients that have a main goal to work across hosts? obviously the clankers have opinions on it, but would like to know human preferences if possible

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Virtualization tech will absolutely dominate the next 3-5 years of cloud/agent infra, harder and with higher stakes than anything we saw in the 20-teens. I think the "sandbox wars" are just a precursor, and a microcosm of the larger discussion.

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

man i tried to see how dumb ive gotten using high octane ai to assist in deep technical work, so hand code some golang + C this week, looked up libs etc. was fine, but came to new conclusion: I don't think that's the bar for being dumb/smart/sharp anymore?

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

nice to see we’re having the same debates today as 30 yrs ago, regardless of topic

chapter description from andy grove's 1996 book

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

there were years where I saw so many friends and peers in the Rust community somewhat smugly posture when npm suffered attacks like this, and no one really admitted the only difference at the end of the day was scale and obscurity so yea, here we are safedep.io/arrayref-pro...

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Malicious Rust Crate arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload

A compromised release of the popular Rust crate arrayref pulled in a typosquatted proc-macro1 whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile…

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I will go to the grave still stubbornly bookmarking new AI links into my "ML" folder in chrome that I created back in 2012. Real Gs know and it is what it is bro

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

~Project Cycle 2026~ "Oh nice, check out interesting/cool/new project claiming to do novel systems thing" **looks at code. "Ah looks 1 or 2 shotted w/Claude, probably doesn't work" Tries code. Doesn't Work. Next week: "Oh nice, check out interesting/cool/new project..."

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All Systems Go! @all-systems-go.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

📣 The schedule for All Systems Go! 2026 is now live: cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-... 🙏 Thanks to everyone who submitted! Still waiting for a few confirmations, hence some holes. But those should fill in shortly. 🎟️ Tickets: ti.to/all-systems-... ℹ️ More info: all-systems-go.io

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https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2026/schedule/

[1mAll Systems Go! 2026[0m Get different formats: curl https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2026/schedule/\?format=table (default) curl https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2...

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Edoardo Vacchi @evacchi.dev · 16/03/2026

I can't believe @sergialmar.com fell for it! This year I'm honored and humbled to be on the @wasm.io stage for a panel! Come and watch me blabber and stutter, while @ospencer.dev, @juntao.bsky.social and @d-philla.bsky.social actually say something smart about… 🥁 "Running AI in Wasm"

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Been listening to this dude's talks for years, and when a new one drops, it's better than either christmas or a fresh netflix episode on a show you've been binging for years. A nerd's nerd's favorite infra guy barely covers it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSL...

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Distinguished Eng On Stack Ranking, Competing with Bezos, Regrets | Bryan Cantrill

YouTube video by Ryan Peterman

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I'm very happy to see this. Even in an age where we rely on editors less and less, vim, _your vim_, anywhere, across envs is truly powerful was worried it may not continue w/full force with Bram's passing (rip), but it appears the community is v strong. www.vim.org/vim-9.2-rele...

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Vim 9.2 released : vim online

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dame @dame.is · 12/02/2026

if you or a loved one have been harmed working with oauth, you may be entitled to compensation

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Ah man, the @fosdem.org FOMO is overwhelming rn. Hope everyone enjoys the weekend! please grab a tripel karmeliet in the hallway for me and catch up with some of the amazing engineers I know who are going, people like @felicitas.pojtinger.com, @evacchi.dev, and @deadprogram.com 🍻 🤓

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Man, the divide that exists between the dev experiences of SV/venture-backed Cos and Cos from The Rest Of America™️ never ceases to amaze Fr, infra founders should be required to do a tour in a bread-and-butter US/Ca/EU Non-SV company to understand how the world actually works

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Now, all we need is the right primitive so more devs can easily join the party. Currently working very hard on this problem at boxer.dev

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

One beautiful thing about WebAssembly is that we are still so very early. Yes. Early. An ISA that comprises a novel compute paradigm where advances in size, safety, speed, and universality are virtually unmatched by orders of magnitude in most cases? Yeah, very early.

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Everyone's releasing cool AI stuff, but I'm wondering: where's the next k8s coming from? the next Docker? or even the next Linux kernel or FreeBSD? Innovation in systems work is so siloed, hidden, often so much less fanfare asking for a friend

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

You could seamlessly deploy across heterogenous environments, with ease + simple orchestration, with artifacts smaller/faster/safer/more universal than ever. But you don't wanna do that, do ya champ, your helm charts are too perfect. You're terrified of how simple it could all be

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

something something claude code opus 4.5

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

*Update*: I've decided to take a sabbatical to recharge, explore, and push forward some ideas. Apart from taking some initial time to focus on health, and my family, I’ll be spending a lot more time on things I simply did not have the bandwidth for while working long days,

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Chicago kicking things off right 🌨️❄️

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

once again, deep in the source code of the Language of the AI Revolution so much shade on .py these days, not enough recognition of its fun and humble beginnings

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Come through — not only is @wasm.io one of the best Wasm conferences in the world, @squillace.bsky.social usually helps and goes out of his way to make it a really good time :)

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Is there such a thing as "burnout" ? Or is it just white-collar privilege masquerading as a legitimate mental health/life issue. This is an honest question -- I go back and forth on this myself, so I'm curious what people think

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

It's painfully obvious that Wasm is the ideal sandbox for not just agents, but also (and especially) executable artifacts produced by agents. but damn, if it isn't a shame we haven't made it accessible enough that developers leverage it for such by default

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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

happy to report im still dreaming about plan9 and fuschia, but less so about configmaps, so thats progress in my book

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Trezy @trezy.codes · 21/11/2025

Hey y'all, I'm looking for my next role! - 💻 Staff/principal Software Engineer or DevRel - 🧰 Mostly focused on JavaScript tech stacks - 👨🏻‍💼 I'm also open to moving into management - 🎮 Bonus points if it's #GameDev or adjacent If you know of something, my DMs are open. ❤️

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Shivansh Vij @shivanshvij.com · 15/11/2025

People aren’t ready for the next blog post from @loopholelabs.io If you thought the XDP post was interesting (linked below) this next one is going to blow your mind. Here’s a hint: What do chess engines and NAT’s have in common?

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