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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| Original publisher | Sami Honkonen |
| Canonical URL | https://samihonkonen.com/posts/a-love-letter-to-exe-dev/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 09:30:33 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T09:50:00.154Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T09:50:00.154Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | FIld3EI8ACKt · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
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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