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Playbit
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Playbit
@playbit_
a software platform for making joyful personal-scale software
- Excited to finally share a first glimpse at the upcoming Playbit 1.0 with a revolutionary user interface and a truly portable runtime.
- For the past few months we have been able to develop playbit inside playbit [inception.gif] Although the road ahead is still long, we'd like to share a very first peek of playbit in action.
00:00 - *Chipping away at the initial prototype of Playbit* Playbit's goal is to foster a culture of "personal software" — smaller-scale programs made for yourself and your friends. Some of the most interesting things start out as toys or experiments.
- Replying to @playbit_playbit workspaces are like entire virtual machines and can be shared with other people, which means that we have to handle displays of varying size and aspect ratio. For this, we are moving away from a stacking window system to a tiling one, with a "rail"
- Working on the DOM merge code today. The Playbit DOM can keep in sync across apps or even computers either via real-time listening or sporadic merges. This allows for very low-latency UIs without complex data reconciliation.
00:00 - We are looking to hire a contractor to help us with implementing Vulkan and WebGPU/Dawn on Linux DRM playb.it/careers/linux-…
- Milestone: running on macOS under its hypervisor as a self-contained macOS app, without the need for "sudo" etc.On the road to @playbit_ an early alpha release; a mac app which bundles Playbit OS running and runs it via the macOS hypervisor. First milestone completed: a portable code-signed mac app that runs on different computers without any system magic or custom runtime libraries 🥳
00:00 - Replying to @playbit_Here it runs in a web browser but it can just as well run in a "native" app. The UI shown here is just some simple HTML that uses the Playbit DOM library. (The library implementing the Playbit DOM is written in Go.)
00:00 - Replying to @playbit_• Please keep in mind that this is a _very_ early version. • Sign up for early access at playb.it • Video source: files.playb.it/2024-02-02-pla… • Desktop wallpaper by @maitrishahhhh • We are hiring linux-kernel & GPU hackers
- Replying to @playbit_Each "playground" is like a very lightweight virtual computer. You can take a perfect snapshot of your project at any time, which includes its current running state. Not only does this make git optional but it may also allow sharing a copy without the need to "set things up."
- Replying to @playbit_Here's a GIF of the Playbit OS booting up in the macOS playbit hypervisor. It uses the Linux 5 kernel and ZFS 2. Weighs about 6MB.
GIF - Replying to @playbit_Switching tracks a little bit from the abstract to the current. Here's the technical approach of Playbit v1: It's an app which gives you an amazing uniform, portable and archivable software environment.
