What even is an OS now?
25 September 2026 Crazy as it sounds to say this, since it’s all anybody’s been able to talk about for over a year, but the impact of AI on computing hasn’t yet sunk in. Today I’m parting company with Fly.io to work with Kurt on a new project. I’m getting that out of the way so you all know up front I’m talking my book.
- ▪25 September 2026 Crazy as it sounds to say this, since it’s all anybody’s been able to talk about for over a year, but the impact of AI on computing hasn’t yet sunk in.
- ▪Today I’m parting company with Fly.io to work with Kurt on a new project.
- ▪I’m getting that out of the way so you all know up front I’m talking my book.
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| Original publisher | A Final Ward |
| Canonical URL | https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/25/what-even-is-an-os-now/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:36:56 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T23:35:23.832Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-25T23:35:23.832Z |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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What Even Is An OS Now? 25 September 2026 Crazy as it sounds to say this, since it’s all anybody’s been able to talk about for over a year, but the impact of AI on computing hasn’t yet sunk in. Today I’m parting company with Fly.io to work with Kurt on a new project. I’m getting that out of the way so you all know up front I’m talking my book. When I was a little kid, a family friend sold us our first “computer” — scare quotes because I’m pretty sure it was a VTech Laser 200 clone, a chiclet keyboard Z80 that ran off cassette tapes and plugged into our TV. I was old enough to know what a computer was, and conceptually what it meant to program one, because I remember dreaming of all the dumb games I could make.
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