Nice. Is this terminal-first or terminal-only?

good point, it is terminal only

I don't think the better software part is playing out

There’s a lot of really great software out there right now, and a lot that’s terrible and I think powerful abstractions enable both.

you're thinking of the programs in low-level langs that survived their higher-level-lang competitors; if you plot the programs on your machine by age, how does the low quartile compare on reliability between programs written in each group

Survivorship bias is exactly right.

The C and assembly programs we still use are the ones that were good enough to last. The thousands that weren't are gone.

Nobody counts the programs that were never finished because the language made them too hard to write in the first place.

I'm not sure these problems are solvable once a company gets big enough and incentives completely take over. It's like the hands are trying to sew a parachute while the legs are sprinting towards a cliff.

You may be interested in my list here: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

In particular I believe OpenZiti has a similar focus on embedding the tunnel in the apps.

Good pointer. OpenZiti does fit that model well — app-embedded rather than network-wide relay/VPN first (though OpenZiti also supports non-embedded options). The main difference is it’s not just connectivity in the app, but identity- and policy-driven service access, so you get authN/Z-before-connect, with explicit Zero Trust principles, rather than just a tunnel embedded in the client/server.

This is exactly the type of thing I was thinking of. Thanks

Glad it helped (I work on the project). Reading up on Iroh, OpenZiti approaches this less as ‘how do I reach that host across any path’ and more as ‘which identity is allowed to access which service across paths’,’ which feels like a better fit for app-specific access based on zero trust principles than a general network relay.

Is your project public?

That didn't take long: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648627

Bad example; he'd rather be with his horses

Reminds me of:

https://www.brandons.me/blog/write-code-not-too-much-mostly-...

See also https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-01-28-dark-flow/

I've only had it once, but inflight Starlink is a game changer. I was able to play a ranked AoE2 game over the Pacific Ocean.

That sounds somewhat unpleasant even if the connection itself is fine. How much space did you have for a mouse?

He didn't say he won.

Did they even enjoy it though beyond the novelty!?

Everyone wins when you can wololo with others on the internet at 30,000ft.

This

It depends on the airline, but sometimes I can put my laptop in weird positions that aren't half bad. The main technique is fully opening the screen, balancing the laptop on its lower edge, and using a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Has the added benefit of putting the screen closer to eye level.

Hah, reminds me of learning to play Quake Live on my macbook trackpad. It was hard to go back to a mouse.

I guess not everyone flies economy (I do though, and not out of choice.)

I thought this was an AoE2 eco joke for a second