Playbit (@playbit

Playbit

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Playbit

@playbit_

a software platform for making joyful personal-scale software

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Joined January 2021

Playbit
@playbit_
Jun 26, 2023
Playbit is an endeavor to build a new operating system for software creatives. After over two years of research, Playbit is now a real company and we are hiring our founding engineers. Are you up for the challenge? playb.it/careers/
Playbit
@playbit_
Apr 1, 2021
Excited to finally share a first glimpse at the upcoming Playbit 1.0 with a revolutionary user interface and a truly portable runtime.
Playbit
@playbit_
Feb 28, 2024
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.
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Playbit
@playbit_
Feb 16, 2021
*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.
Playbit
@playbit_
Feb 28, 2024
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"
Playbit
@playbit_
Feb 1, 2021
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.
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Playbit
@playbit_
Jan 7, 2024
We are looking to hire a contractor to help us with implementing Vulkan and WebGPU/Dawn on Linux DRM playb.it/careers/linux-…
Playbit
@playbit_
Feb 17, 2021
Replying to @playbit_
Here's a concept drawing of what it might look like on two computers
Playbit
@playbit_
Mar 8, 2021
Milestone: running on macOS under its hypervisor as a self-contained macOS app, without the need for "sudo" etc.
Rasmus Andersson
@rsms
Mar 8, 2021
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 🥳
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Playbit
@playbit_
Feb 1, 2021
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.)
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Playbit
@playbit_
Feb 28, 2024
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
Playbit
@playbit_
Feb 16, 2021
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."
Playbit
@playbit_
Feb 17, 2021
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
Playbit
@playbit_
Feb 16, 2021
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.