Dave Winer ☕️jake savin is making good progress on porting frontier to run, headless, on linux and mac os. just wanted to make sure you were in the loop.
hope all is well! been following your work on old PCs, many of which i used "back in the day."
Ted C. Howard@davew That's exciting! These new "agentic" tools are proving useful for things like this.
Thanks for reaching out. I'm glad to see progress being made here. I have so many aborted attempts to port the kernel littered across my hard drive.
Is there someplace I can go see the work in progress?
@tedchoward --
this is where the work is happening.
https://github.com/jsavin/Frontier
it's a fork of your Frontier project.
i "watch" it and get detailed updates when they accomplish something. makes for very interesting reading.
GitHub - jsavin/Frontier: The UserLand Frontier Kernel is a powerful development platform including an integrated object database, scripting language, a script editor and debugger, outliner, a multi-threaded runtime and an integrated HTTP server. This fork is actively modernising the runtime and toolchain to build and run on modern systems, and to separate UI from runtime.
The UserLand Frontier Kernel is a powerful development platform including an integrated object database, scripting language, a script editor and debugger, outliner, a multi-threaded runtime and an ...
he's also keeping an "instant outline" which i follow and you can follow too if you like.
https://drummer.land/[email protected]/JakeShare.opml
to follow that outline, open https://drummer.land/ and choose Open Url from the file menu and enter that url.
the outline will update when jake updates it. usually one or two times a day.