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fiatjaf
How?
wwwtyro
In a nutshell, Toothless is a daemon that downloads, installs, and launches Docker containers when it is queried over http.
brockrockman
so can XSS start/stop/install/uninstall toothless apps?
dominotw
is .rocks the new .io ?
api
I want .sucks
indium21
.rocks doesn't really sound that great. To say "look, I rock!" is a bit .. I don't know.

(that said, not to be OT, this app looks interesting though)

CmonDev
Anything goes in a war against squatters.
api
This could be unbelievably useful for some areas you might not have considered much:

- Academic stuff, like distributing applications that do advanced modeling or heavy math.

- Beta testing to select groups of beta users

- GUI rapid iteration with customers! (Big OMG here!)

wwwtyro
Great points, thanks for the counsel!
api
The academic math niche was one of the only areas Java applets got traction.
CmonDev
- not having to deal with HTML quirks;

- not having to deal with CSS quirks;

- not having to deal with JS quirks;