> The dingo has truly eaten our baby. It is so strange that people still say this. A family lost their child.
On this one point, if you really pin us down, you can get me to feel bad, but you know that this is a reference to a Seinfeld bit.
Turn And Face The Strange
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#112This is interesting. I’ve been building a project on top of sprites for the past few months, but I’ve often thought about moving off because it didn’t feel like fly was devoting enough attention to it. The changelog is sparse and their developer discord is kinda dead. So it’s good to hear they’ll be prioritizing it going forward
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#113Sprites are clearly the future. Are there plans to give it a web UI? I haven't minded ssh'ing in, but I've wanted to share this with my wife who would use a sprite on her iPad. Basically, ChatGPT but with a full sandboxed Linux environment that can host stuff is a pretty compelling offering.
I’ve been working on a project for this - https://mymachines.dev
It provisions a sprite and spins up Claude code/Codex on it for each session you create. Finishing up an iOS client for it too
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
This really sucks. I not only like fly a lot, I have two production apps; thousands in annual creds up for renewal soon; and some mildly embarrassing discussions about migrations to have.
What sucks? I strongly advise you not to axiomatically derive our product roadmap from HN comments trying to interpret that post.
sucks: fly backburnering the app platform to build sprites.
> [...] Sprites, and focusing the company on [Sprites] and the problem they solve.
Then later
> first path [the thing I like/advocate/use] and [Sprites] ... We do one thing or the other. We don’t limp in on both. And if we fail, we fail with our full asses.
Hard to interpret that as anything but the thing I like being backburnered. Which is how it goes, but sucks.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
What sucks? I strongly advise you not to axiomatically derive our product roadmap from HN comments trying to interpret that post.
sucks: fly backburnering the app platform to build sprites. > [...] Sprites, and focusing the company on [Sprites] and the problem they solve. Then later > first path [the thing I like/advocate/use] and [Sprites] ... We do one thing or the other. We don’t limp in on both. And if we fail, we fail with our full asses. Hard to interpret that as anything but the thing I like being backburnered. Which is how it goes, but…
Ah, that's fair! I just got the impression that other people on this thread were axiomatically deriving that we were killing Machines, rather than just shifting the roadmap towards Sprites.
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#116This is interesting. I’ve been building a project on top of sprites for the past few months, but I’ve often thought about moving off because it didn’t feel like fly was devoting enough attention to it. The changelog is sparse and their developer discord is kinda dead. So it’s good to hear they’ll be prioritizing it going forward
If any fly people read this, could you please add the ability to create custom_api connectors to the api? Sprites are so close to being great for arbitrary secrets proxying. Right now you have to provision everything manually
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#117Saw this on my RSS feed and was surprised to see it hasn't been discussed yet on HN - fly.io used to be on the front page pretty regularly with some pretty big comment threads, but I had to go back over a year to find anything from them with more than a handful of comments. I guess they've become less relevant on here since they stopped allowing new users to host apps for free?
I think they became less relevant, at least amongst human users, when they hit a particularly rough patch with awful reliability issues a couple of years back. At least that's when my own social circle and loose constellation of developer acquaintances started saying "we should probably avoid Fly.io".
My first introduction to the company was the "You're all nuts" blog post that's being litigated elsewhere in the comments. I'm not an AI skeptic (just an AGI/ASI skeptic) so I didn't feel like it was targeted at me, but the whole tone and standoffishness it gave left a very bad first impression.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
sucks: fly backburnering the app platform to build sprites. > [...] Sprites, and focusing the company on [Sprites] and the problem they solve. Then later > first path [the thing I like/advocate/use] and [Sprites] ... We do one thing or the other. We don’t limp in on both. And if we fail, we fail with our full asses. Hard to interpret that as anything but the thing I like being backburnered. Which is how it goes, but…
Ah, that's fair! I just got the impression that other people on this thread were axiomatically deriving that we were killing Machines, rather than just shifting the roadmap towards Sprites.
Well, I do interpret this is step one towards a forthcoming post titled "Our Incredible Journey [with Fly Machines]"...
Whether that comes to pass depends on sprite uptake and so forth, but I believe it to be a lot more likely than I did a month ago. So, like I said, bummed, because fly is genuinely nice and I dislike using aws.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah, that's fair! I just got the impression that other people on this thread were axiomatically deriving that we were killing Machines, rather than just shifting the roadmap towards Sprites.
Well, I do interpret this is step one towards a forthcoming post titled "Our Incredible Journey [with Fly Machines]"... Whether that comes to pass depends on sprite uptake and so forth, but I believe it to be a lot more likely than I did a month ago. So, like I said, bummed, because fly is genuinely nice and I dislike using aws.
That's nice of you to say, and I appreciate it. I'd be sad in the event you're describing too! I spent a lot of time on Fly Machines (not nearly as much as JP and Peter, though).
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I do interpret this is step one towards a forthcoming post titled "Our Incredible Journey [with Fly Machines]"... Whether that comes to pass depends on sprite uptake and so forth, but I believe it to be a lot more likely than I did a month ago. So, like I said, bummed, because fly is genuinely nice and I dislike using aws.
That's nice of you to say, and I appreciate it. I'd be sad in the event you're describing too! I spent a lot of time on Fly Machines (not nearly as much as JP and Peter, though).
Could we not just forklift our fly thing to sprite I wonder (if it came down to that, that is) ?