Dan Phillips

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...

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

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 🍻 🤓

ah, you're going? Speaking?

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

oh wow, those are beautiful

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

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.

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

Can confirm.

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

something something claude code opus 4.5

Please hmu if you'd like to chat about anything above, collaborate, or even talk about what I should be doing next; I’m very open to all interesting conversations and opportunities.

I will (and already do) miss working with several of the incredible people there, many of whom are now life-long friends and colleagues.

- twitter.com.com/d_philla
- bsky.app/profile/d-ph...
- mastodon.social/@d_philla

Though it was a difficult departure, I already look back fondly at my time at @loopholelabs.io. The work we were able to do there was not only transformative, but also fun, enriching, and inspiring.

I will be writing more as well. For Infrastructure, WebAssembly/Virtualization, plus the broader industry, I’ll be writing here boxer.dev/blog. And, for everything else, I'll likely just be pontificating (inappropriately and with abandon) across my socials:

I'll also be sprucing up some small, fun projects I started way back, which still run to this day and have a sizable and faithful set of users still utilizing them regularly, to my surprise 🙂.

Specifically: postacard.co and spinup.dev

and some nights and weekends, in my previous role.

I'll be returning to some infra projects in the WebAssembly and Virtualization spaces, along with spending some time going deep in a couple of areas related to Computer Vision, NLP, and experimental distributed infra, all TBA.

*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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it is Friday in Chicago

youtu.be/ONtXSlRjcMk?...

Schemin'

indeed! doing real work 💪

Chicago kicking things off right 🌨️❄️

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

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 :)

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

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

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

c'est vrai