A Love Letter to Exe.dev
The article expresses nostalgia for the simplicity of early internet experiences and highlights the author's positive experience with exe.dev. It emphasizes how exe.dev allows users to easily create and manage virtual machines without the complexities of modern cloud services. The author appreciates the return to a more direct relationship with computing, reminiscent of earlier days.
- ▪Exe.dev allows users to create virtual machines quickly via SSH.
- ▪The author compares the experience of using exe.dev to the simplicity of early internet days.
- ▪Exe.dev eliminates the need for complex dashboards and interfaces, focusing instead on the core computing experience.
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A love letter to exe.devMay 29, 2026 · 2 min · Sami HonkonenWhen the internet was still fairly young, I managed to convince a local ISP to let me bring my old computer to their server room so I could run my own server. It was amazing.The coolest thing was chatting with people on IRC with a verified domain name, and using screen (the predecessor to tmux) to keep your nickname from being stolen while you slept. Identity theft was different back then.I could just SSH to my server and do stuff. There was no provider, no console, no dashboard, no billing alerts. Just my computer on the internet.Somewhere along the way that feeling got lost. The cloud arrived and brought complexity along with it.
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