Porting Tailscale to Plan 9

It’s been said that nothing helps land a joke like explaining it, so here we are to explain yesterday’s Tailscale Plan 9 announcement, even at the risk of killing the joke. But really, if we had to kill a joke by explaining it, there’s no better type of joke to kill than a corporate April Fools’ Day post. They’re admittedly pretty terrible in general. I’m of the opinion that if you’re going to do such a joke, you better put some effort into it; it should actually work. (Otherwise it’s 100% sad instead of whatever percent sad yesterday’s post was.) And to be super clear today on April 2nd because nobody believes anything on April 1st: Tailscale now actually works on Plan 9. For reals. We were amused to find everybody in shock that there was a PR attached to yesterday’s blog post so let’s dig into that PR a bit, and other work that went on. First off: I don’t really know Plan 9. I know of Plan 9, and I know people who know Plan 9, but I’m a Plan 9 newbie and I apologize in advance if ... Read full article.