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**Dave Eddy:** Oh, man. Yeah, Wasm is so interesting. I think about that so much. It's one of those things that's so poorly named, in my opinion... But like so many things are. If you want to make a web request on JavaScript, before you had fetch, you had - what, a new XML HTTP request, or whatever it was? Like, Ajax, ...
\[33:56\] You can do so much, because you can compile directly to it. It's a limited set, but it's very well defined. Put an asterisk next to that, but... Like, it's defined, and that's awesome. So the idea of just having this Wasm blob that I could put on any different operating system, as long as we can translate it ...
**Justin Garrison:** Now, explain to me... First of all, if you already have Illumos at home, you're writing some Rust... I thought everyone that runs those two things works at Oxide. Is that not the case? I thought that -- I was like "Everyone that I know that's like "Oh, we use Illumos and we write Rust" is like "Oh,...
**Autumn Nash:** Can I rewrite your talk bios to say "Also throw shade constantly"?
**Justin Garrison:** That's not shade. Oxide's great.
**Autumn Nash:** You have like the pettiest, shadiest tech takes. I think your TikTok channel needs to have a Justin shade of the week, because I will actually start showing up to your videos and like --
**Justin Garrison:** Now that I don't work for enterprises, I can just be a little more honest about some things. It's fine.
**Dave Eddy:** I love the shade. I think it's great.
**Autumn Nash:** But do you see how he keeps rubbing it in?
**Justin Garrison:** I didn't throw shade there. That wasn't shade.
**Autumn Nash:** See? The shade just comes out of him at this point. Do you see this? This is what I deal with.
**Dave Eddy:** I 100% see it. Oh yeah, now that I don't work at enterprise companies... Oh, sorry. That's my print being done over there...
**Autumn Nash:** I know...! Worst friend ever. Like, let me just rub in... He's always like "I don't have a million meetings today", and I'm like...
**Justin Garrison:** So, Dave...
**Dave Eddy:** So yes, yes. Back on track.
**Justin Garrison:** Why don't you work on Oxide yet?
**Dave Eddy:** Oxide is awesome. I think they're doing really cool stuff. I have a lot of friends that I know that work there. I talk to people that work at Oxide. Really cool stuff. Really awesome. A lot of the people that are at Oxide came from Joyent before that, so a lot of Illumos stuff, a lot of stuff like that g...
I don't know if that'd be a place that I end up in the future. I think it'd be a great company to work for. Maybe I'll apply if they have any sort of job openings... But right now, I'm happy with my current situation. I have no real reason to move. But I will say this... If I were to quit my job anytime soon, Oxide wou...
**Autumn Nash:** Do you hear that, Oxide? Offer Dave a bunch of money.
**Justin Garrison:** Did you listen to the On The Metal podcast they had?
**Dave Eddy:** Oh, absolutely.
**Justin Garrison:** That was such a great history lesson of what the world of tech was like... And I love the interviews they had. Even the current one they have, Oxide and Friends, is really good.
**Dave Eddy:** Oh, yeah.
**Justin Garrison:** But I love the history side of technology, and On The Metal was just so great.
**Autumn Nash:** I love that, too. Okay, you drink Dr. Pepper, but if you ever want a good book, like tech history, or like to go down a rabbit hole, he's the best friend ever. Like, all of a sudden he'll be like "And then I read this one book about this, this and that", and you're just like \[unintelligible 00:37:03.0...
**Justin Garrison:** I try to summarize it so you don't have to. Same with white papers. That's one of the reasons I read white papers.
**Autumn Nash:** Being friends with him is like getting homework a lot though... Because all of a sudden I have like six books --
**Justin Garrison:** I know, I don't want to do that.
**Autumn Nash:** No, but he's also like downloading information, because all of a sudden he's like "And then this one dude created --" What's that? The -- I think he did the SHAs. But also, his hobby was unicycles. And I was like "I don't know what to do with this information, but I love it."
**Dave Eddy:** That's cool.
**Justin Garrison:** I don't remember what the book was called, but yes, no, that was a fantastic one.
**Autumn Nash:** Also, he picks out your fun lunch places to go when you go to conferences...
**Justin Garrison:** As long as you have Dr. Pepper, it's fine.
**Autumn Nash:** I just throw Dr. Pepper at him, and then he picks us a place to go to lunch. Hanging out with him is fun.
**Dave Eddy:** That's great.
**Justin Garrison:** Dave, can you explain Void Linux to me?
**Dave Eddy:** Sure.
**Autumn Nash:** Void Linux? What is Void Linux?
**Justin Garrison:** I've never used it, but I just know it's where a lot of the systemd haters -- not haters necessarily; people that just wanted to avoid over-complex things.
**Dave Eddy:** \[38:01\] Yeah, pretty much. I mean, that's a good way of saying it. It's more than just a systemd-less operating system. There's a lot of reasons to do it. There's the -- I think you can get the GNU variant, or like the muscle version of like the libc, so you can have whatever floats your boat, basicall...
**Justin Garrison:** Upstart was terrible, too.
**Dave Eddy:** Oh, a hundred percent.
**Justin Garrison:** Upstart was worse than systemd, in my opinion.
**Dave Eddy:** Absolutely. There's a lot of things I don't love about systemd, but I think it actually -- it is what it's trying to be. It is a like service manager... It starts up your services in order, it has a lot of good dependencies... It does some of the stuff that it does really well. I'm not a systemd hater, i...
**Justin Garrison:** I don't know Daemon tools.
**Dave Eddy:** Oh yeah, Daemon tools is really cool. It's just a super-simple thing. If you use Daemon tools, then you go over to run it, you'll see "Oh, these were absolutely -- one was inspired by the other." You can see it.
**Justin Garrison:** How close is that to like SysVinit?
**Dave Eddy:** Not really... Close in the sense that it's very simple, but it's not like -- you don't have the etsyinit.d scripts, you don't have any of that stuff. You still have like etsyrclocal, things like that, but... When you want to make a Daemon on the system, you make a directory with the name of the Daemon, a...
It logs to like STDOUT of the process that it's going to, or STDERR. I'd have to double check, but you can also make a logging process, so each thing can log to its own process. You could send it to syslog, you could send it to a file, log it to like a temp directory... So it's one of those things where if you hear "Oh...
**Justin Garrison:** I like systemd. I actually think that running it, in certain cases -- the way you can like add to things, and add overlays for services... I really like how they manage some of that. I do think it does a lot. But I actually hated SysVinit. Like, I did not like all of the Bash scripts. I didn't like...