day 4 of redesigning a startup's landing page for free today: @freestyle_dev the founder asked for more personality, so i made a little mascot type of thing. they even move when you hover over them. it also fits the whole "cloud" sandboxes well, with real clouds on the page.

my hot take is that every tier of "sandboxing" is valid just-bash wasm isolates gvisor containers VMs shared kernel sandboxing isolated bare-metal machine There's a time and a place for each

Idk how much @vivaldibrowser pays him but it’s not enough

University of Chicago Students to Protest at Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Demand End to Federal Ban on Onion Futures Student-led group For Our Futures will rally Monday morning to call for repeal of the 1958 Onion Futures Act On Monday, October 19, at 8:30 a.m., members of For Our Futures, a student-led organization from @UChicago, will gather outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (@CMEGroup) headquarters to demand the repeal of the Onion Futures Act of 1958, a nearly 70-year-old federal law prohibiting futures trading in onions. The Onion Futures Act, enacted following allegations of market manipulation in the 1950s, singled out onions for a prohibition on futures contracts that remains in effect today. For Our Futures is calling on Congress to repeal the ban and restore the ability of onion growers, buyers, and traders to participate in a regulated futures market. Onions remain the only commodity banned from futures trading in the United States. The protest will feature a giant inflatable onion costume, protest signs, and dozens of students, and will take place outside the headquarters of CME Group, one of the world's largest derivatives marketplaces and the historic center of American onion futures trading. DM for details cc: @pointsnfigures1 @CharlesFLehman @matt_levine @nbcchicago @ABC7Chicago @cbsnewschicago @WGNNews @fox32news @WBEZ @Suntimes @BlockClubCHI @chalkbeatCHI @SeanCasten @mansourtarek_

sandboxes are a compute primitive just like a cloud function or a database or a cache, a sandbox is another component of a broader product suite the same way Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes are primitives, not platforms there’s no winner take all Postgres company beyond the framework itself, which is open-source anyway the winning infra company builds a platform around those primitives and builds an ecosystem around it you don’t “win” the market for Postgres, or containers, or VMs you win by building the platform that runs all of it

Here's my list of people to watch 25 and under. Who else should I add? cosign.co/lists/eriktorenber…

also, alot of providers pride themselves on a <100ms sandbox spin up. it doesn't matter if the sandbox spins up in Planck time if sticking my image on / launching the desktop takes 10-20 seconds.