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Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

excellent! let's chat sometime soon?

Dan Phillips @d-philla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

Bonus points: stains, old and new, across the ensemble

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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

We are already experiencing the pain of the current SoA, so what's the ideal for the current and next age? Kicking this question around for months (years?) now

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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 · 23/09/2026

Yes, we can dramatically improve the Unix process model, by orders of magnitude, in terms of resource use, speed, and safety, and keep the exact same semantics. (blog post dropping Friday, hopefully 🤞) boxer.dev / blog

boxer.dev

Boxer: Dockerfile to WebAssembly

Boxer offers a lightweight, secure, and near-universally deployable alternative to traditional containers using WebAssembly.

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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

Anyway, come by ye olde blue bottle this afternoon in soma and I'll tell how you we will actually commoditize this space once and for all, definitively

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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

When people try to approach or imagine projects that appear to subvert these hallowed institutions, they are usually referred to as "Indie" developers. Interesting, right

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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

also, please note: some people are in fact doing some excellent work here in the space, not just casting aspersions casually here, happy to explain that difference, as well, in-person

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

Devs have issues naming things, luckily we can just call them what they are 😇 Sandboxing should refer to actual fundamental, design-specific sandboxing technology, or to kids' play areas. Happy to explain the difference! Hmu ifykyk

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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

Stop me if you wanna talk Virtualization, the future of Agent Cloud Infra, why MicroVMs are almost fully commoditized, what to do about the CPU crunch, or anything else! (I'm dead serious, interrupt me, even if I'm looking at my terminal angrily 😄)

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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

there are a handful of people who come to mind with these combined qualities and more, and let me tell, they are amazing

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

all at once is. Once this is understood, it's really no surprised that we have 200 firecracker + gVisor forks as "companies" competing for the same pie.

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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...

justinfagnani.com

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

It's still a WIP, please hmu if you want to get involved and help out on it. Weave. Technical details coming in a blog post soon, more info on repo

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

Note, this is a different type of thing than if you wanted to, say, live-migrate a Linux VM, or other virtualization abstractions tied to/emulating bare metal archs or those tied underlying kernels and storage and networking facilities or similar; some similarities, but several glaring differences

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

,which imo is where the current models really shine, even more so than straight code gen Check it out, feedback extremely welcome. Also, definitely seeking contributors to push it forward if anyone is interested, as I won't really have time to work on it in the foreseeable and immediate future.

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

All that is to say though, I finished it in about 1/50th of the time it would have taken me otherwise to get it to a beta release like this, especially because of the extensive experimental period it took to decide on technical direction and architecture

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

Yes, I used AI assistance, as we basically all do now. Yes, the code is more verbose than I would like. No, this was not "vibe-coded".

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

Toyed with this idea like 5+ years ago, made small attempts with free time here and there since then, but Sol + Astra helped push it over the line in the last couple of weeks to this beta.

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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

github.com

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

a verbose implementer for sure, but hard to say if it's a deal breaker yet

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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

Any resulting thing that doesn't provide profound levels of safety, speed, and efficiency, at the lowest possible level, along with widespread adoptability will absolutely be left on the floor given where the world is at now, and where it's heading.

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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

like, the paradigm has jumped so far and we can't go back, sooo obviously this is going to take time to shake out, and like everything else in this industry people will claim to know how to measure it, but no one actually will, and in like 7 yrs we'll look back and be like "oh"

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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...

safedep.io

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

cfp.all-systems-go.io

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 · 19/03/2026

yo im down, lfg, sounds incredible

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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...

youtube.com

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...

vim.org

Vim 9.2 released : vim online

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