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exe @exe.dev · 18h
Shelley can now take a screen recording as a prompt. Hit record, talk through your problem, click around, and your agent gets the transcript + video: blog.exe.dev/show-and-tel...
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Show and Tell: Shelley - exe.dev blog
Instead of typing a prompt, record yourself (and your screen) and Shelley will hand off the video and transcript to an agent.
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exe @exe.dev · 28/09/2026
We launched pools. Group your VMs, pay for compute: blog.exe.dev/pools-our-ne...
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Pools: Our Newest Primitive - exe.dev blog
A new way to group VMs, with shared resources and predictable pricing. Plus new Personal and Work plans.
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exe @exe.dev · 24/09/2026
What's going on with the air quality in San Francisco? We built a fire map to find out: blog.exe.dev/what-s-going...
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What's Going on With the Air Quality in San Francisco? - exe.dev blog
I built a fire map to find out.
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exe @exe.dev · 23/09/2026
Share Shelley skills across all your VMs: blog.exe.dev/shelley-skil...
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Share Shelley Skills Across Your VMs - exe.dev blog
Register a skill once, and attach it to any VMs that you want to see it.
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exe @exe.dev · 23/09/2026
"My old mindset was wanting a bot to nag me into doing the thing. The new mindset is to have the bot take the task as close to the finish line as possible." blog.exe.dev/cron-vs-vm
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Tales from the Software Factory: The Cron and the VM - exe.dev blog
"My old mindset was wanting a bot to nag me into doing the thing. The new mindset is to have the bot take the task as close to the finish line as possible."
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exe @exe.dev · 23/09/2026
"In this new era of 'I can build anything,' this often means you first have to make a choice, 'do I care enough about what good looks like for this product to own the maintenance and upkeep?'" blog.exe.dev/caring-vs-kn...
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Caring vs. Knowing - exe.dev blog
Thoughts on how to DIY sustainably.
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Philip Z @philz.dev · 23/09/2026
I recently reverted to old habit and wrote a "Jenkins job" (it was Buildkite, but pot-ay-to pot-ah-to) to nag me about Fireworks model updates. Eventually, I came to my senses, and used a VM with a timer and an agent instead. So much better.
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Tales from the Software Factory: The Cron and the VM - exe.dev blog
"My old mindset was wanting a bot to nag me into doing the thing. The new mindset is to have the bot take the task as close to the finish line as possible."
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exe @exe.dev · 15/09/2026
Ever wanted your agents to just talk directly with each other? Now they can: blog.exe.dev/mayfly-chat
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Mayfly Chat: Transient Chat for Agents - exe.dev blog
Click 'new channel,' give the URL to your agents, and voilà, they can talk to each other.
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exe @exe.dev · 31/08/2026
It's time to revisit the Joel Test: blog.exe.dev/revisiting-j...
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Revisiting Joel's Test - exe.dev blog
Joel Spolsky's twelve questions still hold, but agents demand nine more. Call it the Shelley test.
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exe @exe.dev · 20/08/2026
We taught sqlc to invalidate our caches: blog.exe.dev/we-taught-sq...
Of course, information changes over time. People can change the sharing status of their VMs, VMs can move to different hosts, and in general the routing information that the proxy is using can change. So while using a cache is efficient, it means that we have to handle what is notoriously one of the two hard problems of computer systems: cache invalidation (the other hard problem is naming; also, off-by-one errors).
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exe @exe.dev · 18/08/2026
Have an agent babysit your deployments: blog.exe.dev/athena-deplo...
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Have an Agent Babysit Your Deployments - exe.dev blog
The question is not: could a human do it better? The question is: in practice, will a human actually do it at all?
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exe @exe.dev · 18/08/2026
The sane way to run Hermes on mobile: m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Izp...
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How I Run Hermes On My Phone
YouTube video by Official Channel for Exe Dev
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exe @exe.dev · 14/08/2026
When working with agents, is it better to plan or iterate? blog.exe.dev/planning
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No Plan Survives Contact With the Enemy (Reality) - exe.dev blog
People who use coding agents are either planner or iterators (or somewhere on that spectrum). The two sides are closer than you think.
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exe @exe.dev · 11/08/2026
"At exe, we believe agents should be able to access everything they need. That said, we do our best to avoid giving them persistent credentials that could leak." blog.exe.dev/oauth-for-ag...
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OAuth for Agents - exe.dev blog
Agents shouldn't hold long-lived secrets. Give them an identity instead—and short-lived access when they need it.
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exe @exe.dev · 07/08/2026
It's just that easy: t.co/EaQb6cztGS
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PW6WmQ6lQCQ
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exe @exe.dev · 07/08/2026
A Non-Exhaustive Inventory of exe's Software Factory: An agent that looks for security issues systematically. An agent that investigates alerts. An agent that investigates logs. Bots to fix flaky and slow tests. A status page. Read on: blog.exe.dev/inventory
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A Non-Exhaustive Inventory of exe's Software Factory - exe.dev blog
A quick tour of the internal tools and agents that keep exe running.
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exe @exe.dev · 06/08/2026
"Rome didn’t fall in a day, but this is as good a point as any to mark the moment No Code platforms jumped the shark." blog.exe.dev/the-end-of-n...
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The End of No Code - exe.dev blog
Writing custom software used to be expensive. Coding agents changed the math.
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exe @exe.dev · 05/08/2026
Bots are part of the workplace. How should they behave? We have thoughts: blog.exe.dev/botiquette
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Botiquette - exe.dev blog
We have a lot of bots doing work at exe. Here's how they should behave.
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exe @exe.dev · 04/08/2026
Two Ghostty instances stand between you and your shell. Here's how exe-scroll keeps remote terminal sessions alive, plus a tour of the prior art: mosh, tmux, dtach, and web terminals: blog.exe.dev/exe-scroll
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Ghostty in the Machine: the saga of exe-scroll - exe.dev blog
Two ghostty instances stand between you and your shell. How exe-scroll keeps remote terminal sessions alive, plus a tour of the prior art: mosh, tmux, dtach, and web terminals.
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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 30/07/2026
I told someone about @exe.dev today and told them not to google it. Open a terminal and just ssh. It's the 🤯 moment I love to see
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exe @exe.dev · 29/07/2026
"Instead of having billing API calls littered in the code, what if we issued billable facts about the state of something and reconciled billing once the new facts were settled?" blog.exe.dev/billable-facts
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Stripe Just Wants a Number - exe.dev blog
Inside exe’s billable facts architecture.
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exe @exe.dev · 28/07/2026
answering all your burning questions about exe’s iOS app: youtu.be/BhBFA2igURk
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Agents Ship from Anywhere: exe.dev on iOS
YouTube video by Official Channel for Exe Dev
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exe @exe.dev · 27/07/2026
K3 is out. Your cloud provider probably doesn’t have it. We do :) exe.dev
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exe.dev - ssh exe.dev
Build apps or SSH into a persistent Linux VM. ssh exe.dev.
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Antithesis @antithesis.com · 22/07/2026
We 🐡🐡🐡 exe.dev -- simple, effective, fast. If you've noticed improvements in our user experience over the last 6 months, they were accelerated by how simple exe.dev made things.
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exe.dev - ssh exe.dev
Build apps or SSH into a persistent Linux VM. ssh exe.dev.
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Vishnu Gopal @vishnugopal.com · 24/07/2026
Trying out @exe.dev and it's so cool! Built a website for my wife in about 10 minutes. Easy for her to edit too since it's wired up to ChatGPT. You just ask it to make changes and it does. There's also something magical about executing commands like this: `ssh exe.dev share set-public <vm-name>`
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exe @exe.dev · 24/07/2026
"Why can’t I just be connected to multiple tailnets at the same time?" Great q. Now you can: blog.exe.dev/a-tale-of-tw...
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tailmix: Connect to Multiple Tailnets at Once - exe.dev blog
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exe @exe.dev · 22/07/2026
PSA: You can now interact with your VM on Slack blog.exe.dev/run-a-slack-...
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Run a Slack Bot from Your VM (Without Giving It the Keys) - exe.dev blog
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exe @exe.dev · 22/07/2026
"I just realized what I wanted was, like, a computer." How @antithesis.com uses exe to give agents real machines, safely: blog.exe.dev/how-antithes...
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How Antithesis Turned exe into a Sandbox for Agentic Software Tests - exe.dev blog
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exe @exe.dev · 21/07/2026
Built a distributed DNS server in ~a week. Rebuilt twice on purpose. Shipped -> went on vacation. DNS incidents a month later: 0. How we did it (hint: the answer isn't vibe-coding): blog.exe.dev/claude-is-no...
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Claude Is Not a Compiler - exe.dev blog
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exe @exe.dev · 14/07/2026
We're going to be sharing more about how people use exe to build cool stuff. First up—a conservationist who turned 40 terabytes of public data into a video game: blog.exe.dev/meet-the-con...
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Meet the Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data Into a Video Game - exe.dev blog
Raffael Hickisch spent years dreaming up conservation tools he couldn't afford to build. Then he built them himself, with an AI agent and a country's worth of public data.
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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 11/07/2026
New episode of @fafo.fm with @crawshaw.io about @exe.dev scheduled for Monday Have some more outages included in the newsletter. If you like reading those kinds of things subscribe at sub.fafo.fm
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 14/07/2026
Setting up Gerrit on @exe.dev with X-ExeDev-Email auth took 60s! However, that doesn't make git work. I hacked together a little proxy that does a tiny amount of OAuth2, exchanging exe.dev auth in the browser for a token that works with git-credential-oauth.
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GitHub - filippo-claude/gerrit-exedev-auth-proxy: Authenticate Gerrit web and Git smart HTTP with exe.dev OAuth
Authenticate Gerrit web and Git smart HTTP with exe.dev OAuth - filippo-claude/gerrit-exedev-auth-proxy
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Kevin Stewart @kstewart.me · 08/07/2026
I’ve been considering buying a new Mac mini or Mac Studio (yes, yes… I’m aware of the price increases) but after reading this I might just stick with my MacBook Air and just use @exe.dev
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Building Software From My Phone - exe.dev blog
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exe @exe.dev · 07/07/2026
While we validate a kernel change for januscape (CVE-2026-53359), we have disable nested KVM across our fleet for individuals and teams without dedicated hardware. We will restore nested KVM in a rolling release as soon as we can. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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Philip Z @philz.dev · 23/06/2026
Behind the scenes on how the exe.dev iOS app was built: blog.exe.dev/ios-developm.... Step 1: buy mac mini. Step 2: give Shelley access to simulator. Step 3: over the air updates, Step 4: prompt app into existence from itself. Also, gratuitous profiler. boldsoftware.github.io/public_html/...
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exe.dev - ssh exe.dev
Build apps or SSH into a persistent Linux VM. ssh exe.dev.
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Philip Z @philz.dev · 16/06/2026
Me, reaping: *startled* *fart noises emanating from Mac* TEN MIN PRIOR Me, sowing: "Shelley, build an iPad sound machine; test with the simulator." THIRTY MIN PRIOR "I learned how to build iPad apps at work; kids, what shall we make?" TODAY exe.dev has an iOS app blog.exe.dev/ios
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John Turner @breaking.computer · 29/05/2026
I have a lot of the same feelings about @exe.dev. It’s made side projects feel manageable and fun again, especially after mostly running on k8s (which I have a lot of love for, it’s just Big™️ for side projects)
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Sami Honkonen @samihonkonen.com · 29/05/2026
My first self-hosted server lived on zort.org in the early days of the internet. Letting that domain go is one of my more lasting regrets. exe.dev brings back the feeling, but sadly not the domain. New blog: samihonkonen.com/posts/a-love...
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A love letter to exe.dev
Why having a computer on the internet feels good again.
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Stephen @diaconou.com · 13/05/2026
Really enjoying @exe.dev so far. Create a VM in seconds, and then you can use a coding agent via a web interface on the box to quickly get stuff setup. I went from nothing to deployed postgres on one VM, a Rails app in another, with tailscale to network them in a few minutes.
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Joe Lazar @joelazar.dev · 15/05/2026
became an instant fan of @exe.dev 🤩
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Heavybit @heavybit.com · 22/04/2026
We're excited to welcome @exe.dev founders @crawshaw.io and @commaok.xyz to the portfolio. exe.dev lets devs quickly stand up affordable, secure VMs without the need for complex configuration or authentications, or for an enormous cloud bill. www.heavybit.com/press/heavyb...
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exe @exe.dev · 22/04/2026
Series A: blog.exe.dev/series-a
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 04/04/2026
There was no good way to see what CT logs are actually used by CAs, so I made a dashboard of @censys.bsky.social data on @exe.dev. groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...
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exe @exe.dev · 07/03/2026
Copy-on-write VMs are useful!
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exe @exe.dev · 03/03/2026
To serve, stick around.
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Bite Code! @bitecode.dev · 17/02/2026
A different article than usual, focused on a new hosting service that recently came out: ssh exe.dev www.bitecode.dev/p/exedev-a-n... TL;DR: the value is far away from OVH or Hetzner, but so it’s damn convenient and frankly, super fun. And I’m not saying that because we share the same .tld
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exe.dev: a new hosting solution for your prototypes
Being unproductive has never been so well instrumented
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aksh1618 @aksh1618.aksh.dev · 15/02/2026
I think I'm beginning to get @exe.dev Your ideas can go into shelley instead of into the bottomless "some day" idea pit. And tailor-made software for a userbase of you and/or your friends is a reality now. Supported by what feels like the best UX for VMs in the world. Beautiful! 🤌🏼🤌🏼
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exe @exe.dev · 15/02/2026
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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exe @exe.dev · 08/02/2026
‘cp’ is a bit like repost, if you had an edit button
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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 08/02/2026
This was the first time I tried @exe.dev It's pretty neat 👍 I own enough compute that I don't need to pay for the service, but I really like the UX.
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