Supabase seems to be killing it. I read somewhere they are used by ~70% of YCombinator startups. I wonder how many of those eventually move to self-hosted.

I had a lot of fun reading the articles about Gas Town although I started to lose track of the odd naming. Only odd because they make sense to Steve and others who have seen the Mad Max, Water World movies.

I promptly gave Claude the text to the articles and had him rewrite using idiomatic distributed systems naming.

Fun times!

Care to share that with the rest of the class? I'd love to hear what those idiomatic distributed systems namings are!

Ran it through ChatGPT:

  Town            = Central orchestrator / control plane
  Rig             = Project or workspace namespace
  Polecat         = Ephemeral worker job
  Refinery        = Merge queue manager
  Witness         = Worker health monitor
  Crew            = Persistent worker pool
  Beads           = Persistent work items / tasks
  Hooks           = Work queues / task slots
  GUPP            = Work processing guarantee
  Molecules/Wisps = Structured, persistent workflows
  Convoys         = Grouped feature work units

https://chatgpt.com/share/695c6216-e7a4-800d-b83d-fc1a22fd8a...

Thank you! Is this the future? Everyone gets to have their own cutesy translation of everything? If I want "kubectl apply" to have a Tron theme, while my coworker wants a Disney theme. Is the runbook going to be in Klingon if I'm fluent in that?

I hope not. Homebrew is a great example of why boring tools shouldn't invent quirky terminology.

Before I clicked on this I was optimistic and thought this was going to be about how we've turned a corner and the web stack pendulum is now swinging back to the easier days before frontend frameworks.

Same! Right there with "every day must begin with coffee"

A web app platform written in Rust with the primary focus on zero-dependency apps and using Pingora as a forward and reverse proxy. Targeting Hetzner for hosting and Cloudflare for DNS. I love Rust but don’t like the long compile times which led me down this rabbit hole (zero dependencies make for fast compiles).

For a while, the O'Reilly subscription was included in the $99/yr ACM membership. Then they stopped offering O'Reilly for a bit. Then they brought it back as part of the $75 skills add-on.

I feel like this is a little known secret (discount via ACM) that more folks should know about. Hopefully this post helps spread the word.

Please provide a trivial example of the code and the generated sketch front and center on your front page.

There’s tons of examples just past the fold!

I recently gave up on Proxmox for my home lab needs after a failed upgrade from 8 to 9. I also never liked the feeling of not having an easy to use API.

Question: did you run the pve8to9 script? Read their extensive documentation [0]on how to upgrade? Fix the stuff aforementioned script comes up with?

My cluster went from 6 to 7, 7 to 8 and recently 8 to 9, along with Ceph - all without a single problem.

Given it’s more or less Debian underneath, not too surprising I’d say? Granted, there’s always a chance for something to go sideways, however, it’s unlikely you’re the first person to encounter this problem and if you check their forums, you should find a solution.

[0] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_8_to_9

Depending on what your needs are, have a look at Incus-OS. While recently released and with lot of stuff “still in progress”, it’s something to keep an eye on. Even comes with ZFS:

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus-os/

https://github.com/lxc/incus-os

Ive put off that upgrade as I just dont have the time to fix it if goes sideways. What did you end up moving to?

vom