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I'm excited by Cap'n Proto's participation in the OCAPN standardization effort. Can you speak to if that's going to be part of the Cap'n Proto 2.0 work? https:

I'm excited by Cap'n Proto's participation in the OCAPN standardization effort. Can you speak to if that's going to be part of the Cap'n Proto 2.0 work? https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn

kentonv 3y ago
Sadly, the person leading that participation, Ian "zenhack" Denhardt, recently and unexpectedly passed away. For my part, I'm a fan of OCapN, but I am not sure how much time I can personally commit to it, with everything on my plate. I wish I had better news here. This was a tragic loss for all of us.
- the_common_man 3y ago
  That's tragic. Was he also not helping maintain sandstorm? Would appreciate a blog post or a note about him there
  - kentonv 3y ago
    Yes, he was the most active developer over the last few years, although it wasn't a huge amount of activity. And that activity had dropped off this year as Ian shifted his focus to Tempest, a mostly-from-scratch rewrite. https://github.com/zenhack/tempest https://github.com/zenhack/tempest For my part I stopped pushing monthly Sandstorm updates this year as there hasn't really been anything to push. Unfortunately Sandstorm's biggest dependencies can't even be updated anymore because of breaking changes that would take significant effort to work around. I agree a blog post is probably in order.
    - ocdtrekkie 3y ago
      I have thought a bit on this but I have also been pretty much just been recovering lately. We will probably need to assemble a blog post at some point soonish, but we need to talk to a few people first.
      - hgsgm 3y ago
        Who are you in this? Your profile just shows a username.
        ocdtrekkie 3y ago
        I'm part of Sandstorm's community team and the maintainer of some apps and tools relating to the project.
        kentonv 3y ago
        Can confirm, ocdtrekkie is one of Sandstorm's most active maintainers over the last few years.
    - nyanpasu64 3y ago
      Looking at https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-19-why-not-run-docker-apps https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-19-why-not-run-docker-apps from 9 years ago, it seems you think that Docker was/is poorly suited for individual user administration. Since the Internet has started enshittifying in the last few years I've been turning to self-hosting apps, but this requires researching distro-specific instructions for each new app I install, and I got burned when Arch updated their Postgres package which broke compatibility with the old database formats until I ran a manual upgrade script which required troubleshooting several errors along the way. (In hindsight, I should've picked a fixed-release distro like Debian or something.) Would you say that there have been user-friendly Docker/etc. wrappers for self-hosting LAN services? Someone has recommended casaOS (or the proprietary Umbrel), though I haven't tried either yet.
- bryanlarsen 3y ago
  The guy making Tempest? That is tragic and deserves an HN front page. Is there an obituary or good link you can submit and we can upvote? Or would Ian have preferred not to have such?
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  - omginternets 3y ago
    Indeed, Ian was the driving force behind Tempest. I am not aware of any obituary.
  - LukeShu 3y ago
    I would have sworn that HN is where I saw https://staticfree.info/ian/ https://staticfree.info/ian/ but at the time I didn't realize why it was timely. The best link I know is Christine Lemmer-Webber's post:https://octodon.social/@cwebber/110712988569475393 https://octodon.social/@cwebber/110712988569475393
- omginternets 3y ago
  Kenton, I'm @lthibault on GitHub. I was working closely with Ian on the Go capnp implementation, and I would be happy to take over this initiative. Can you point me in the right direction? Also, are you on Matrix or Telegram or something of the sort? I was hoping I could ping you with the occasional question as I continue work on go-capnp.

kentonv 3y ago

Sadly, the person leading that participation, Ian "zenhack" Denhardt, recently and unexpectedly passed away. For my part, I'm a fan of OCapN, but I am not sure how much time I can personally commit to it, with everything on my plate. I wish I had better news here. This was a tragic loss for all of us.

the_common_man 3y ago
That's tragic. Was he also not helping maintain sandstorm? Would appreciate a blog post or a note about him there
- kentonv 3y ago
  Yes, he was the most active developer over the last few years, although it wasn't a huge amount of activity. And that activity had dropped off this year as Ian shifted his focus to Tempest, a mostly-from-scratch rewrite. https://github.com/zenhack/tempest https://github.com/zenhack/tempest For my part I stopped pushing monthly Sandstorm updates this year as there hasn't really been anything to push. Unfortunately Sandstorm's biggest dependencies can't even be updated anymore because of breaking changes that would take significant effort to work around. I agree a blog post is probably in order.
  - ocdtrekkie 3y ago
    I have thought a bit on this but I have also been pretty much just been recovering lately. We will probably need to assemble a blog post at some point soonish, but we need to talk to a few people first.
    - hgsgm 3y ago
      Who are you in this? Your profile just shows a username.
      - ocdtrekkie 3y ago
        I'm part of Sandstorm's community team and the maintainer of some apps and tools relating to the project.
        kentonv 3y ago
        Can confirm, ocdtrekkie is one of Sandstorm's most active maintainers over the last few years.
  - nyanpasu64 3y ago
    Looking at https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-19-why-not-run-docker-apps https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-08-19-why-not-run-docker-apps from 9 years ago, it seems you think that Docker was/is poorly suited for individual user administration. Since the Internet has started enshittifying in the last few years I've been turning to self-hosting apps, but this requires researching distro-specific instructions for each new app I install, and I got burned when Arch updated their Postgres package which broke compatibility with the old database formats until I ran a manual upgrade script which required troubleshooting several errors along the way. (In hindsight, I should've picked a fixed-release distro like Debian or something.) Would you say that there have been user-friendly Docker/etc. wrappers for self-hosting LAN services? Someone has recommended casaOS (or the proprietary Umbrel), though I haven't tried either yet.
bryanlarsen 3y ago
The guy making Tempest? That is tragic and deserves an HN front page. Is there an obituary or good link you can submit and we can upvote? Or would Ian have preferred not to have such?
- deleted 3y ago
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- omginternets 3y ago
  Indeed, Ian was the driving force behind Tempest. I am not aware of any obituary.
- LukeShu 3y ago
  I would have sworn that HN is where I saw https://staticfree.info/ian/ https://staticfree.info/ian/ but at the time I didn't realize why it was timely. The best link I know is Christine Lemmer-Webber's post:https://octodon.social/@cwebber/110712988569475393 https://octodon.social/@cwebber/110712988569475393
omginternets 3y ago
Kenton, I'm @lthibault on GitHub. I was working closely with Ian on the Go capnp implementation, and I would be happy to take over this initiative. Can you point me in the right direction? Also, are you on Matrix or Telegram or something of the sort? I was hoping I could ping you with the occasional question as I continue work on go-capnp.