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frankgrecojr commented on Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig github.com/lightpanda-io/... · Posted by u/fbouvier

frankgrecojr · a year ago

The hello world example does not work. In fact, no website I've tried works. It's usually always panics. For the example in the readme, the errors are:

```

./lightpanda-aarch64-macos --host 127.0.0.1 --port 9222

info(websocket): starting blocking worker to listen on 127.0.0.1:9222

info(server): accepting new conn...

info(server): client connected

info(browser): GET https://wikipedia.com/ 200

info(browser): fetch https://wikipedia.com/portal/wikipedia.org/assets/js/index-2...: http.Status.ok

info(browser): eval script portal/wikipedia.org/assets/js/index-24c3e2ca18.js: ReferenceError: location is not defined

info(browser): fetch https://wikipedia.com/portal/wikipedia.org/assets/js/gt-ie9-...: http.Status.ok

error(events): event handler error: error.JSExecCallback

info(events): event handler error try catch: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')

info(server): close cmd, closing conn...

info(server): accepting new conn...

thread 5274880 panic: attempt to use null value

zsh: abort ./lightpanda-aarch64-macos --host 127.0.0.1 --port 9222

```

frankgrecojr commented on The end of Airplane.dev yolken.net/blog/end-of-ai... · Posted by u/bhyolken

vladsanchez · 2 years ago

What's Airplane's best alternative to build internal apps? Windmill and Retool were mentioned but I'm not convinced of them.

Any guidance will be appreciated.

frankgrecojr · 2 years ago

You should take a look at Superblocks. I think you'll find our building blocks both flexible and extensible to solve you use cases.

frankgrecojr commented on Show HN: A better visual builder for complex business logic superblocks.com/blog/intr... · Posted by u/frankgrecojr

dang · 2 years ago

As you had a successful Show HN a few months ago, it's probably too soon for another - see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

Show HN: Superblocks AI – AI coding assistant for internal apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36495680 - June 2023 (62 comments)

frankgrecojr · 2 years ago

Our of curiosity, which specific point does it violate? Would it help to remove the "Show HN: " prefix?

frankgrecojr commented on Show HN: A better visual builder for complex business logic superblocks.com/blog/intr... · Posted by u/frankgrecojr

frankgrecojr · 2 years ago

Perhaps. Those who want to do that can leverage our Javascript and Python blocks to write whatever code they'd like.

Most of our platform is centered around "integrations". For example, You'd have a visual block for an S3 integration (that would have been previously configured) that you'd use rather than initializing an S3 client in code for example.

We want to meet people where they're at though. If you want to write code, you can do that but if you want to use a more visual approach, you can do that as well.

frankgrecojr · 2 years ago

Another way to maybe approach this is to consider programming constructs that are "hard" to understand. Imagine you want to "do n things in parallel". If your company uses Java (or any language where it's no trivial to do concurrency), this is not straight forward. A visual way to do this makes it much easier.

frankgrecojr commented on Show HN: A better visual builder for complex business logic superblocks.com/blog/intr... · Posted by u/frankgrecojr

dragonwriter · 2 years ago

> With Control Blocks, developers get a visual programming language that looks, feels, and scales like code.

What problem does that solve? I get that there are situations when a programming medium that doesn’t look, feel, and scale like code might be useful, but when the right solution is something that looks, feels, and scales like code, isn't that what is solved by code?

frankgrecojr · 2 years ago

Perhaps. Those who want to do that can leverage our Javascript and Python blocks to write whatever code they'd like.

Most of our platform is centered around "integrations". For example, You'd have a visual block for an S3 integration (that would have been previously configured) that you'd use rather than initializing an S3 client in code for example.

We want to meet people where they're at though. If you want to write code, you can do that but if you want to use a more visual approach, you can do that as well.

frankgrecojr commented on Show HN: A better visual builder for complex business logic superblocks.com/blog/intr... · Posted by u/frankgrecojr

cjohnson318 · 2 years ago

Does this handle tasks in different timezones? Is there a map interface? Like, say I've got to manage multiple drivers over multiple timezones, and I need to know who's got an hour left on their shift, what they're hauling in their truck, and where they are on a map.

frankgrecojr · 2 years ago

Superblocks can absolutely be used to build something to solve this use case.

frankgrecojr commented on Show HN: A better visual builder for complex business logic superblocks.com/blog/intr... · Posted by u/frankgrecojr

withinboredom · 2 years ago

All you are missing now is a 'scratch pad' to 'sketch out' an idea without any definites. Like take a nomnom/mermaidjs flow chart and let me 'flesh out' each block with the control blocks.

frankgrecojr · 2 years ago

Each one of these "APIs" has a json/yaml DSL that could be constructed with any builder pattern. We just haven't released a public API for this yet.

frankgrecojr commented on Show HN: A better visual builder for complex business logic superblocks.com/blog/intr... · Posted by u/frankgrecojr

vb-8448 · 2 years ago

> We provide an agent deployment model that allows your data to never leave your network

I had i rapid look at the docs and, for what I understand, the agent is "dumb" and need to continuously contact your cloud (similar to github/gitlab ci runners) and also the user interface is on cloud. Correct?

frankgrecojr · 2 years ago

The UI executes APIs against this agent which talks to Superblocks to fetch API definitions to run. These definitions will be "signed" by a key that only the agent is the authority of so customers can guarantee that it hasn't been tampered with.

frankgrecojr commented on Show HN: A better visual builder for complex business logic superblocks.com/blog/intr... · Posted by u/frankgrecojr

hk__2 · 2 years ago

I usually expect "Show HN" posts to be about new products/projects you’ve worked on, not to post every feature annoucement of your company.

Also:

> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, ideally without barriers such as signups or emails. You'll get more feedback that way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

frankgrecojr · 2 years ago

Thanks for this! I personally wrote a significant portion of this feature am very excited about this new tech!

Unfortunately we require email to signup but have a free trial. Users are able to test end to end in just a few clicks.