Pigshell: Unix the Web

dapperdrake

Pigshell explores taking plan9 to the next level.

jauntywundrkind

(2015). Connect to g+! Very much a fan of this, of the 9p life. What times seeing a shell on the web with 9p access! 9p is very shell coded, as we see here, but I also really want to imagine going further. I want to imagine apps and systems that interoperate via small fine grained files. As a scripting environment, I really hope it's easy and fun for programs and now llms to look at and alter state, to work other systems, and 9p feels like it is rallying around a core truth that's there all the time just more of it, more files. Instead of descending beyond the os into deeper datastructures like toml. A downside is that now you need lots of kernel syscalls to talk to all the files. That alas has not, historically, been performant.

sntran

Hah, I had somewhat similar plan, but based on the concept of FIFO (named pipes) and the Unix tool `mkfifo`, so I built https://mkfifo.com to make it easier for people to build pipes instead of shell commands. There are also a few FIFOs there that works like rclone, using my own `rfetch` library. Still a WIP though.

alt227

My Chrome flags this site as not secure, but it doesnt tell me why which is strange. EDIT: Looking at it, chrome seems to hide all security info about sites now and only display a generic 'Not Secure' badge for anything. This is a very awkward change and removes lots of convenience when troubleshooting random sites. Still, the site needs to fix its SSL certificate.

somat

The web(html) is a hierarchical system and as such it's proper place in the world is mapped to the filesystem. Which is honestly what I thought plan9's webfs https://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/webfs did and then you could use the filesystem api to parse it. But alas, I actually read the man page to double check, and it looks like it does the much more sane option and just fetches web resources(http), I am crushed. But it may be a fun weekend project to see if that mapping could be done and where it fails. So not a complete loss.

nickdothutton

In some ways rather subversive! I like it. Not sure I'll get use out of it though.

aturek

Not in HTTPS? No thanks!