Spaces OS dispatch #17

Week 20 - Sep 18

Seamless installation experience

The Spaces OS installer is now graphical. It also transitions seamlessly between the installer and the installed system and carries over knowledge and state into the final system.

If the user installs packages or changes settings on the in-memory installer, all packages and changes will be carried over into the installed system. This allows experimenting with the OS before it is fully installed, trying out software and keeping what is useful.

Clanker

Audio transcription

Clanker, our team's collaboration chat bot, also got new capabilities. We were experimenting with audio transcription: it can now join calls like a human and react to a wakeword (e.g. "Hey clanker, summarize the meeting").

Wallet

It also got access to its own Bitcoin wallet and is now able to send and receive Lightning payments.

Faster Iterations

The ability to test drives development. Every new iteration adds tests to ensure regressions stay fixed and features stay working. We reduced the overhead necessary, saving roughly 5 minutes of cycle time for every PR. That might not sound like much, but it adds up over time because it's a constant tax everyone has to pay for making a change.