the real trick was making "ship your machine" sound like best practice and ten years later we r doing the same thing with ai "it works in my notebook" jst became "containerize the notebook and call it a pipeline" the abstraction always wins because fixing the actual problem is just too hard.

Linux user space is an abject disaster of a design. So so so bad. Docker should not need to exist. Running computer programs need not be so difficult.

repurposing a Palm Pilot dial-up tool to sneak container traffic past enterprise firewalls is unhinged and yet it worked the best infrastructure hacks are never clever in the moment they are just desperate that the cleverness only shows up after someone else has to maintain it.

Agreed.

I've recently switched from docker compose to process compose and it's super nice not to have to map ports or mount volumes. What I actually needed from docker had to do less with containers and more with images, and nix solves that problem better without getting in the way at runtime.

I am also optimistic we will succeed in efforts to properly annotate the data on the Internet with useful and accurate meta-data and achieve the semantic web vision instead of relying on search engines and LLMs.