@benbjohnson

Working on Litestream at @flydotio to help developers run SQLite in production and at scale.

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Joined March 2008
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#developers, This one has been cookin' here at @flydotio for a bit, and we're excited to take the covers off today: Sprites Block Device (SBD) - storage for agents. fly.io/blog/sprites-block-de…

SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home

Sprites outgrew the clever filesystem we built for them. Their replacement is a plain disk: ext4, on a block device, on a bucket.

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Replying to @matteocollina @platformatic
Full transparency: this is a disaster-recovery tool, not a distributed database. No failover merging, and a standby only has data up to the last backup. Those limits are documented. Credit to @benbjohnson's Litestream and superfly/ltx: this is a port, and the original deserves the credit. Read the full writeup: blog.platformatic.dev/sqlite…

sqlite-js-stream: Litestream Rewritten for Node.js

Discover sqlite-js-stream, a TypeScript port of Litestream for Node.js that streams SQLite backups with bounded memory and S3 replication support.

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Thanks for the shoutout, @rough__sea! 🙏
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Ryan Dahl
@rough__seaJul 23
still of the opinion litestream is extremely undervalued
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RT @flydotio: Fly.io is going all-in on Computers for Agents. The reason is pretty simple: we think that agents (within a…

Fly.io | Deploy apps and agents on fast, hardware-isolated VMs

Deploy apps, agents, and databases on fast, hardware-isolated VMs. Pay only for the seconds they run. Sign up free.

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Taking control of the #sqlite WAL - a deep dive into how rqlite lifts the lid on SQLite. And a h/t to @benbjohnson whose work on Litestream showed it was possible. philipotoole.com/taking-cont…
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Annie really did do a killer job distilling Litestream down. I don’t even think I can explain Litestream in four minutes.
Thomas H. Ptacek@tqbfFeb 17
One of the better Annie videos (which is saying something), condensing Litestream down to 4 minutes. youtube.com/watch?v=O0iG4HSs…
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Chris McCord
@chris_mccordFeb 17
I just got opt-in, per-transaction synchronous replication working for litestream. I haven't written c in 25 years. The whole LLM thing is pretty neat
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@mitchellhFeb 5
Wrote up about my personal journey from AI skeptic to someone who finds a lot of value in it daily. My goal is to share a more measured approach to finding value in AI rather than the typical overly dramatic, hyped bait out there. mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-…

My AI Adoption Journey

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Litestream Writable VFS

Lightning fast Litestream VFS, but now with writes!

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I’m tempted to make a Chrome extension that hides all blog posts and YouTube videos that have the phrase “this changes everything” in it. Is everyone just asking Claude to make up their titles these days and that’s why they’re all the same?
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I've been harassing my friend @corylanou to start recording his workflow with Claude Code. He's taught me so much on AI in the last few months and he finally released his first video! Check it out and give him some feedback. 🙏 youtube.com/watch?v=-GKBBMBP…

How I use Claude Skills to quickly work through Github Issues

📝 FULL WORKFLOW GUIDE: https://www.digitaldrywood.com/articles/clau...

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He's also the person that got me into writing Go more than 12 years ago. He's someone I look to for understanding upcoming trends more than anyone else.
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Many organizations mandate a separate reviewer on a PR from the person who wrote the code. But if Claude's writing all our code, can we now approve our own PRs? 🤔
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In fact, now that codegen has been automated away, it frees up a lot of time to read more code than ever. Not just work projects, but also open source projects known for high code quality (like SQLite). You’ll come away with a lot of ideas you can incorporate in your own work.
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@thdxrJan 15
i just put all my opencode data into sqlite unsurprisingly it can query, filter, aggregate way better than it can when these were flat files agents love databases and a filesystem is just the worst kind of database
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@simonwJan 15
Crucial reading for sandbox obsessive like me
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I wrote a thing. fly.io/blog/design-and-imple…

The Design & Implementation of Sprites

So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.

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People bragging about how many simultaneous Claude agents they’re running is such a weird flex. It’s touting the effort rather than the results. It’s like boasting that I run all my CPU cores at 100%. Ok, are they doing anything useful?
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Simon Willison
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Sprites is a very cool new thing: it solves two of my pet problems at once, developer sandbox environments for coding agents and a JSON API for executing untrusted code I wrote more here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9…

Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time

New from Fly.io today: Sprites.dev. Here’s their blog post and YouTube demo. It’s an interesting new product that’s quite difficult to explain—Fly call it “Stateful sandbox environments with checkp...

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@flydotioJan 9
We made a thing called Sprites that lets you run AI code safely. Watch Chris create sandboxes in seconds, let agents install packages freely, then restore to checkpoints when things go sideways. 🔗 ➡️ 🧵
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My friend recently bought a WISP (wireless internet service provider) and needs to hire a network engineer to help with routing & switching. Anybody know anyone that does that sort of thing on a contract basis? He's in Austin, TX but open to hiring someone remotely.
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