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Posted by usrme 1/9/2026

Code and Let Live(fly.io)
https://sprites.dev/
508 points | 189 commentspage 6
adastra22 1/11/2026|
> Stop killing your sandboxes every time you use them.

Fo people do this? I’ve never heard of it.

tinodb 1/11/2026||
docs.sprites.dev requires authentication? And what about adding /llm.txt? I want Claude Code Web to install the cli and deploy what it is working on in a sprite :)
jamietanna 1/10/2026||
Unsure if it's an intended typo: `rm -rf $HMOE/bin`
CGamesPlay 1/10/2026|
I ran the command to check and it erased /bin and now my sprite is busted. But I was able to restore from a checkpoint and it's all good.
mrkurt 1/10/2026||
Intended typo so you can see restore happen ;)
ksclk 1/11/2026||
Does cron work (wake up the vm) there?
mbm 1/11/2026||
This is amazing. Great job Fly team!
mbm 1/11/2026|
Hmm, so even just doing a simple ls -la on the home dir is occasionally taking ~10s. Other times, it's instant (I'm on a stable 1 Gbps connection).

Have been experiencing intermittent connection drops as well.

cedws 1/12/2026||
Not really seeing what's amazing about this. It looks like something very similar to what Fly already offers, just ad-hoc and snapshottable. Still Firecracker underneath.

I've been wanting to sandbox Copilot/Claude Code for a while, but I don't want to pay for a PaaS just to do that. I want to run the sandbox on my M4 chip instead of needing a constant internet connection to run code on an anaemic remote CPU.

rco8786 1/11/2026||
This is cool but like...a docker container running locally works fine too?
tryauuum 1/11/2026||
> They go idle and stop metering automatically, so it’s cheap to have lots of them. I use dozens.

> Despite all that, they’re fully durable. They don’t die until I tell them to.

what?

tryauuum 1/11/2026|
I guess they autoresume from idle if an https request comes to a sprite
atleastonce 1/11/2026|
Fly.io is so cool.

The way they force at least one "fuck" into all of their promo is just so cool.

Erm, I mean so fuck cool!

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