Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 30/07/2026make a system of primitives so powerful that it would be foolish not to reach for them by default 021
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Announcing Wanix Elements! Now you can build virtual compute systems with just HTML. Some broad use cases: - let people try your CLI before downloading - build your own browser OS or dev env - make old apps/games work on the web - explore and play with plan 9 concepts Link below. 1152
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 05/06/2026a wanix system tied to web auth to give you a persistent home directory backed by r2 in a linux vm in your browser 120
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 04/06/2026its cool when you're like "now i want an r2 bucket as a filesystem, served over 9p, over websocket, mounted as a filesystem on a webpage" and without wanting this before, you already have all the pieces built: 000
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 19/05/202695% of programmers do not understand this and/or have stockholm syndrome with the mess. you can SHOW THEM the nice pretty stack of fewer pieces and they're like "but where are the red blocks?" 021
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 12/05/2026pretty easy now to write a program that exports a synthetic filesystem in wanix 000
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 20/12/2025apptron is the only pure browser environment to run the complete go toolchain, capable of cross compiling to over 40 platforms 000
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 12/12/2025just for fun, with apptron you can jump into linux in the browser, boot up stock apache, get a public endpoint, and browse to the default page... served from the apache running in the other tab! 032
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Behold major Wanix CI and DX improvements: self-documenting, organized Makefile and fast, parallel CI builds that make release-ready artifacts for all platforms on every push: 110
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 21/05/2025But remember this is about MADHOUSE, and to keep things confusing here is a video of a different MADHOUSE from 15 years ago. 000
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 21/05/2025He also made the beloved Night Manor game in the highly acclaimed #UFO50 and I think might be an inspiration for the in-game character designer of the game within the UFO game world. 100
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Here is a video of him at Buca di Beppo trying to eat giant ice cream. 100
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 21/05/2025This is him by the way. Doing promo for TIGL3D as a character in the game that is himself as the creator of the game ... in the game. 100
Jeff Lindsay @progrium.bsky.social · 23/04/2025The spirit of Plan 9 comes to the web! This Friday at 1pm pacific we're premiering a dense 20 minute demo video of the new Wanix release, followed by Q+A. Link in reply. 130