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kevinak commented on Umbrel – Personal Cloud umbrel.com... · Posted by u/oldfuture

nikolay · 6 days ago

Last time I looked at it it had some craptocurrecy stuff, which lost me as a user.

kevinak · 6 days ago

It very much came from the Bitcoin world and was sold as a way to run your own node. Great experience if you’re into that but it’s nothing that is forced on you, they’re just “apps” like everything else you can install on it.

kevinak commented on Umbrel – Personal Cloud umbrel.com... · Posted by u/oldfuture

kevinak · 6 days ago

I run an umbrel on an off the shelf mini pc and it’s been great! Very polished and nice experience!

kevinak commented on Building a high-performance ticketing system with TigerBeetle renerocks.ai/blog/2025-11... · Posted by u/jorangreef

ies7 · a month ago

If 100k users each hit purchase button at the same time will sqlite write it in 1 second?

This is different than 1 user doing the purchase for 100k fans

kevinak · a month ago

I mean it depends on the query and what you're doing of course, but it's not impossible to reach writes/s in the 80k range.

kevinak commented on Building a high-performance ticketing system with TigerBeetle renerocks.ai/blog/2025-11... · Posted by u/jorangreef

makapuf · a month ago

SQLite is in process, but concurrent write / performance is a complex matter : https://sqlite.org/wal.html

kevinak · a month ago

Yes, that's why I would expect it to smoke Postgres here, in process is orders of magnitude faster. Do you really need concurrency here when you can do 10-100k+ inserts per second?

kevinak commented on Building a high-performance ticketing system with TigerBeetle renerocks.ai/blog/2025-11... · Posted by u/jorangreef

kevinak · a month ago

Is FastAPI just bad with SQLite? I would have expected SQLite to smoke Postgres in terms of ops/s.

kevinak commented on Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance github.com/Snapchat/Valdi... · Posted by u/yehiaabdelm

erlend_sh · a month ago

I use Voyager, a client for Lemmy, on a daily basis and it’s my favorite mobile (iPad) app. Voyager is the spiritual successor to the Apollo client for Reddit.

https://github.com/aeharding/voyager

The app uses Ionic’s Capacitor, which to my rudimentary understanding is the webview-based upgrade of Cordova. I’ve had far fewer issues with this app than the likes of Bluesky (react native) and Discord (I think also react native but not sure).

The webview approach seems to be the only way for a one-person team to feasible provide a cross-platform app with an app-store presence. Another promising alternative to Capacitor is Tauri Mobile which does essentially the same thing, but mobile doesn’t seem to be a high priority for them.

kevinak · a month ago

Like GP I haven't experienced many WebView based apps that are great so I had to give this a spin and I have to say it's actually pretty good! I would not have identified this as a WebView app if I didn't already know about it from this comment.

kevinak commented on DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia cnbc.com/2025/10/14/bitco... · Posted by u/pseudolus

ur-whale · 2 months ago

Which just goes to show that custody is a hard and almost always under-estimated problem.

kevinak · 2 months ago

It is, but it's not so hard that you can't figure it out to keep your 15 billion safe.

kevinak commented on DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia cnbc.com/2025/10/14/bitco... · Posted by u/pseudolus

kevinak · 2 months ago

It boggles my mind that people like this don't set up multi-sig wallets using hardware devices that are physically not in the same location.

kevinak commented on DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia cnbc.com/2025/10/14/bitco... · Posted by u/pseudolus

HPsquared · 2 months ago

That's the thing with Bitcoin, all transactions are permanently stored in a public ledger.

kevinak · 2 months ago

Unless the criminals used the Lightning Network of course, not likely though since the amount is so large.