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I am a social being and thrive around other people.
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I am a social being and thrive around other people.
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I look forward to coming to Frontløberne daily and share the space and ideas with the lovely people there.
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I look forward to coming to Frontløberne daily and share the space and ideas with the lovely people there.
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[About this site](/LearnMore/About)
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This site is written using MirageOS. You can read more [about this site](/LearnMore/About) and how it works.
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Thank you for reading,
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Reynir Björnsson
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title: Tiny Imaginary Computers
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author: Reynir Björnsson
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This website is running as a *Mirage unikernel*.
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A traditional application is one or more programs that run in an operating system on a computer alongside other programs.
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A *unikernel* is a program that is also an operating system.
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That sounds boring -- an operating system where only one program ever runs?!
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And that is correct, this is often not what you want.
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Luckily, modern machines have the capability to run many *virtual machines*.
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This provides some benefits:
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- A virtual machine is well isolated from other virtual machines.
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You don't have to worry about one application messing with the files of another,
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or a malicious application sending the private bits from another application somewhere where it doesn't belong.
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- You know what your application needs from the operating system, so you can leave out the things that are not needed.
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This simplifies things, makes the operating system much smaller.
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Furthermore, it's a big security benefit - every bit of code is a potential security issue.
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Only a few years ago it was a huge problem for many people because their virtual machine had a vulnerability in the virtual floppy drive!
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- The program is self-contained.
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All that it needs is packaged up in the unikernel.
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In traditional software you often have a number of dependencies that you need on your computer in order to run the application, and they all need to have a compatible version.
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This website is using a *library* called [Canopy](https://github.com/Engil/Canopy) that a guy I met in Morocco and later Leipzig wrote.
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The first thing it does when it starts is to fetch files that are under *version control*.
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This means the files have a log of what was done, and every change is tracked.
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You can go back in time if you regret a change!
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I made the files public on a website hosted by my friends [data.coop](https://data.coop/).
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Whenever I push new changes there Canopy makes sure to get the latest updates.
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You are welcome to take a look at the history: [https://git.data.coop/reynir/frontloberne](https://git.data.coop/reynir/frontloberne)
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Canopy knows how to make the simple text files look pretty in your web browser.
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On the same machine I run another Canopy instance which serves a technical blog at [blog.mirage.reyn.ir](https://blog.mirage.reyn.ir/).
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At the moment I'm only running a few other things, but I could easily run 100s of instances.
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title: Open Source
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author: Reynir Björnsson
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Open source is a philosophy of sharing knowledge and know-how.
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You share how things work, be it software, beer recipes or how to grow oyster mushrooms from spent coffee grounds.
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You are free to read, inspect and modify the code (recipe) in any way you like.
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In some cases, extra conditions apply such as you have to share back any changes or improvements you have made if you're not using it just for personal purposes.
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In other cases no conditions apply.
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Pretty much all my work is released as open source.
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It is something I believe in.
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