mieubrisse

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by mieubrisse 3y ago
A big problem we've hit with allowing users to write Typescript (or any other general-purpose programming language) for our product is that it's too powerful. Observationally, it seems that all that power eventually gets used, a
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
100%. Containers are essentially language-agnostic software libraries, and the config we write for them is analogous to the wiring we'd normally do in a to wire libraries together. Yet, our current tools aren't adapted to write an
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Agree - one of the things we've found using Starlark at Kurtosis is even the small jump from Python to Starlark makes people think, "What's this Starlark? I don't want to learn a new language", and we have to show t
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
danielgtaylor, I hope you don't mind me submitting - I stumbled across Huma today while investigating if anybody had made the idea I was contemplating; turns out you have and it's way better than my own idea!
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Huma: REST API framework for Go with OpenAPI generation(github.com)
3 points by mieubrisse 3y ago|2 comments
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
This sleep thing is so intriguing. I've treated sleep as somewhat optional - try to get 8h... but if I don't, I'll make it up later at $unspecified_date. Unsurprisingly, my Fitbit registered that, for 2023, I got 6.5h of aver
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Fascinating and informative article. I'm wrestling with an unknown something that looks like it might be autoimmune, and this reads like the difference between "you're destined to a lifetime of palliative treatments" vs
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Yep, I agree. I've been chatting with a friend about Nix (I'm a novice) and it sounds like it has the capacity to treat many things as Just Files connected in a dependency web, which is cool.
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
I chuckled reading this, as we're trying to do exactly what you described at my current startup, https://github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis ! More seriously, I've been mulling over the idea that humanity is go
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Datapoint: as someone who lives in a small apartment without room for two machines, the combined washer/dryers are wonderful for me. I'm on board with the initial article, but it made me realize that enshittification is relative -
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
You're welcome! I stumbled across it by coincidence today and had an epiphany, "Whoa, forget DeFi - it never occurred to me how important decentralized archiving is. What if archive.org goes down? How would we rebuild?" Thank
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Ask HN: How can I make local dev with containers hurt less?
96 points by mieubrisse 3y ago|53 comments
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ArchiveBox: Open-source self-hosted web archiving(github.com)
250 points by mieubrisse 3y ago|42 comments
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
We're trying to do this at Kurtosis! ( https://github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis ) The idea is to write your environment in Starlark (a minimal Python subset) and we'll handle running it on Docker or Kubernetes
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
How would you feel if you could use Starlark (if you're familiar with it) to parameterize a la Helm, and then can add more Starlark commande later to update previously-defined infra a la Kustomize? Full disclosure: our startup is tryin
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Big +1. We switched to Starlark for our DSL last year and have been very pleased. Users who've never used Starlark before come in with some 'what, another language?' trepidation, and end up pleasantly surprised.
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
I do think there's a power to the readability that makes it more approachable (but which eventually burns you). We were rewriting our AST at Kurtosis last year, and the default choice we were going to go with was of course YAML. But we
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
For me, one of the true advancements of JSON/YAML over XML is how its features are orthogonal to each other I don't have to ask "should this be a tag property, or a subtag"? Which, to your point, isn't to say that
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Viewpoint as someone whose primary job right now is recruiting: my observation on what differentiates Fine software engineers from Great ones is how they understand the problem, engage with it, and go get what they need to solve it. Fine so
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Big +1 to "there are no off-hand requests"; this was a failure that I realized I was making as a leader a month ago. I was (ostensibly) trying to give my team ownership, blasting them with the multiple things that needed doing, bu
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Hey djupblue, right here! https://github.com/kurtosis-tech/kurtosis/#:~:text=Check%20o...
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Hey hobofan, one of the founders here. You're very correct - we don't have lockfiles yet! It's on our roadmap, but we haven't built it yet because the current level of reproducibility has been enough for our users right
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Oops sorry about that; we just fixed. Thanks for flagging!
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
(other founder here) Yep, you got it! This is particularly relevant in the testing usecase where we started: "can we do whole-system E2E testing, so you catch more outliers before you hit Prod?"
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Hey, one of the founders here! As Galen mentioned in the other threads, it wasn't our intention to borrow credibility or dilute the term. Rather we're big fans of Nassim Taleb's Black Swan theory, and to us founding a startup
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An Intuitive Explanation of Hashing(kevintoday.com)
1 points by mieubrisse 3y ago|1 comments
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The Author-Consumer Divide(kurtosis.com)
3 points by mieubrisse 3y ago|0 comments
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Strongly agree. There's a big knowledge gap between the container author and the container consumer that Docker doesn't have a great toolkit for bridging. The best we get are the ENV, EXPOSE, and VOLUME directives, but authors sho
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
You might be interested in what we're building at Kurtosis: you define your app in a deterministic subset of Python, and then we do the magic to change only what's necessary on subsequent runs (what we call "idempotent runs&q
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by mieubrisse 3y ago
Agreed. It's felt like so many of the technological marvels have either happened quietly (e.g. the reductions in chip size) or in the past (e.g. all the physics breakthroughs of the 1900s). Like ChatGPT, this seems to have the characte

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