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kminehart commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)    · Posted by u/david927
kminehart · 10 months ago
I don't have a link for it yet, but I am working on using an HCL-like syntax to write CI pipelines. Ideally it would function a lot like dagger but written a lot like terraform.

The main problems that I want to solve are the really slow feedback loop of complex GitHub Actions / GitLab CI, but without the limitation of having to run it within another CI provider.

kminehart commented on Show HN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm   github.com/glasskube/glas... · Posted by u/pmig
dilyevsky · a year ago
> So something like starlark with types.

this exists for k8s[0]. there have been other users based on the same library[1], I heard reddit did something similar internally

[0] - https://github.com/cruise-automation/isopod [1] - https://github.com/stripe/skycfg

kminehart · a year ago
If I was in charge of our infra automation I would have done this. We opted for jsonnet instead which is an absolute nightmare, or at least the way we've set it up is.
kminehart commented on Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable   noemamag.com/social-media... · Posted by u/caldarons
knallfrosch · a year ago
+1 and also want to mention that kids under 16 – what Haidt talks about – can't drive a car at all. Riding a bike is more cumbersome and unsafer than necessary.

As a German, the typical US city and its suburbs really represent a kid-hating hellscape.

kminehart · a year ago
Yep. And it's gotten a lot worse over the last 70 years. http://guide.saferoutesinfo.org/introduction/the_decline_of_...
kminehart commented on Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable   noemamag.com/social-media... · Posted by u/caldarons
kminehart · a year ago
> You have smaller family sizes; people retreat inside because now they have air conditioning and TV and they’re not out in the front yard socializing as much. So, for a lot of reasons, we begin to lose trust in each other.

I think that a bigger factor is the car-centric city and suburb design that started in the US after World War II. It was intended to give everyone what they wanted; a big house, a yard, consistency, etc., but it prevents anyone without a driver or a car & license from socializing and visiting a "third place." I think that it increased individual isolation even before the internet or social media existed and thus set the foundation for social media to be as big of an influence as it is.

kminehart commented on Open Sourcing DOS 4   hanselman.com/blog/open-s... · Posted by u/ndiddy
m4rtink · a year ago
I think ots rose tinted glasses to a degree and survivorship bias - the learning curve was very steep, documentation lacking or absent + no one to ask for help. I was glad I could run some games on my C64 and never really got farther with it due to these limitations.
kminehart · a year ago
But I think the missing ingredient they had back then was there was nothing better to do. Being "bored" isn't as much of a thing anymore for anyone, not just children.
kminehart commented on Nintendo Switch Emulator: Progress Report December 2023   blog.ryujinx.org/progress... · Posted by u/thepbone
marksomnian · 2 years ago
Interesting that Ryujinx is written in C# - I'm not sure why, but at first thought I'd have expected something like a console emulator (where one would have to do "unusual" memory / GPU operations to fully match the quirks of the platform) to be written in C or C++, like Dolphin or PCSX2 (Wii / PS2 emulators) are. Though clearly they can make C# work well for it, and the benefits of working in a managed language are probably worth it.
kminehart · 2 years ago
It's probably not super important with the switch like it would be with the nintendo 64 or something because it's an ARM cpu.
kminehart commented on Show HN: Scribe, a Go library for writing, running, and generating CI pipelines   github.com/grafana/scribe... · Posted by u/kminehart
usrme · 3 years ago
Congratulations on releasing! What are the key differences between this and something like Dagger[1]?

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[1]: https://github.com/dagger/dagger

kminehart · 3 years ago
Thanks!

They definitely promise the same thing but with different approaches.

The key thing that turned me off of Dagger is this: "Tie it all together in CUE". Personally I'm not the biggest fan of CUE and would rather just write Go. Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems like CUE is used in Dagger to create the config that the CI service will use. Switching to another service would mean rewriting that CUE file but reusing the Go/JS/whatever components, which is a great improvement over what we have to deal with now. With Scribe the goal is that you'd only ever have to write the whole thing once, but you're limited to Go.

kminehart commented on Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes   strongtowns.org/journal/2... · Posted by u/oftenwrong
intrasight · 3 years ago
We don't ignore them - we just accept that risk

Data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_safety#Statistics

0.00000003% chance of dying if you drive a kilometer to the yoga studio.

Want to make it less risky personally? Drive less, or drive a safer car.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/top-safety-picks

kminehart · 3 years ago
It sure would be nice if we could just "drive less". Unfortunately the cities we live in, at least in the US, are designed such that it's the only option we have. That's a huge focus of the website / book in the OP called, "Strong Towns."
kminehart commented on     · Posted by u/kminehart
kminehart · 3 years ago
Hi everyone, this is a passion project of mine that started after I've dealt with so many yaml-based CI solutions.

Please let me know what you think. I'm happy to answer any questions or engage in discussion :)

u/kminehart

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