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Playbit

1 year

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?

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

Excited to finally share a first glimpse at the upcoming Playbit 1.0 with a revolutionary user interface and a truly portable runtime.

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Playbit

@playbit_

6 months

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_

3 years

*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.

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Playbit

@playbit_

4 years

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_

6 months

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"

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Playbit

@playbit_

7 months

We are looking to hire a contractor to help us with implementing Vulkan and WebGPU/Dawn on Linux DRM

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

Here's a concept drawing of what it might look like on two computers

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

Milestone: running on macOS under its hypervisor as a self-contained macOS app, without the need for "sudo" etc.

Rasmus Andersson

@rsms

3 years

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_

4 years

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_

6 months

• Please keep in mind that this is a _very_ early version. • Sign up for early access at • Video source: • Desktop wallpaper by @maitrishahhhh • We are hiring linux-kernel & GPU hackers

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

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."

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

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.

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

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.

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

Exactly how the UI is displayed and manipulated in a Playbit project is still a little unclear. The current plan is to prototype something like this, where the user program generates Skia instructions which are displayed in the host OS app, similar to how web browsers work.

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

Finding the right constraints is important for creativity to blossom. Set the "wrong" constraints and you feel limited, set the "right" constraints and ideas suddenly string up. An art teacher asking their class to "draw anything you want" will see disappointing results. However\

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Playbit

@playbit_

4 years

Interesting thread about collaboration and the creative process.

Niko

@nikolasklein

4 years

I got to talk with @_adamwiggins_ and @mmcgrana about Collaborative Creativity on their podcast Metamuse! We were talking about how iterating together openly can lead to more innovative and inclusive ways of working together. Check it out! 1/n

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

Playbit v1 will be likely be 20% right and 80% wrong. This is how good software and good communities start, with a spark of something interesting in a much larger package. Over time we can together refine, build out and evolve the good parts.

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Playbit

@playbit_

7 months

The second "embedded page" in the tweet contains a confusing illustration; here is a newer version that should have been in the tweet. (The website is up to date though.) Apologies to all the "I'll read it in an image" people out there.

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

when the art teacher asks the class to "paint a fruit basket with bananas and two small cats" suddenly the results are fascinating, elaborate and maybe—if you're lucky—a bit weird. What are the right constraints for making personal, joyful software?

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

(Re "playground": just playing with language here. Some other alternatives are "sandbox", "bit", "box" ...)

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Playbit

@playbit_

3 years

@tommoor "A little bit" Early Flash had a very interesting set of constraints. The fact that you could run a Flash program reliably on other people's computers was a key selling point together with a clear authoring model where most decisions were made for you (for better & for worse :–)

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