Homepage and blog of hacker/builder Jeff Lindsay, aka progrium
Visual Studio Code is no longer just a developer tool. It’s now a highly malleable and embeddable product platform. Looking at it beyond a code editor, it's actually a general-purpose application shell with a familiar UI, plugin system, command framework, and cross-platform runtime. Recently it's been used as the platform for several major AI products, but more quietly it's also been used for much…
If you go back to the first talk ever given on webhooks, it opens on the command-line. Specifically the Unix shell, focusing on one of its defining features: pipes. The idea was that pipes brought a new level of compositionality to programs, and webhooks could bring a new level of compositionality to web apps. Perhaps you could say I was trying to bring the spirit of Unix to the web. With this…
Hey everybody, welcome to 2025! Belated as it may be. For the past 5 years I've been heads down on an epic journey to find new and better (read: simpler) ways to build software. Three years ago I posted a kind of thesis video for this work and gave the journey a name: Tractor. Today I want to share a progress report. Tractor is not a single project, but a growing toolkit and developing philosophy…
A quick tour of some of the influences for the Treehouse frontend and where it fits in the ecosystem.
Announcing Treehouse, an open source note-taking frontend and will evolve into something much more.
Apptron is a software primitive that lets you drive native platform APIs using the technologies you’re already familiar with, enabling cross-platform webview apps and more.
How and why I'm building the "Photoshop of software" out of generative building blocks.
qtalk-go is a versatile IPC/RPC library for Go
A midyear review and preview of what's coming.
Remote port forwarding as a service
Towards a socket API with builtin stream muxing
Why I love API schemas and built a tool to generate schemas from Apple documentation.
A local webpage screen overlay for customizing your computing experience
An Objective-C bridge for Go with bindings to common Mac APIs
A tiny, standalone largetype command-line utility
A draft talk I made 5 years ago trying to communicate my mission