Readit Newskot-behemoth commented on Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems github.com/Netflix/metafl... · Posted by u/plokker
I've been curious about this project for a while...
If you squint a bit it's sort of like an Airflow that can run on AWS Step Functions.
Step Functions sort of gives you fully serverless orchestration, which feels like a thing that should exist. But the process for authoring them is very cumbersome - they are crying out for a nice language level library i.e. for Python something that creates steps via decorator syntax.
And it looks like Metaflow basically provides that (as well as for other backends).
The main thing holding me back is lack of ecosystem. A big chunk of what I want to run on an orchestrator are things like dbt and dlt jobs, both of which have strong integrations for both Airflow and Dagster. Whereas Metaflow feels like not really on the radar, not widely used.
Possibly I have got the wrong end of the stick a bit because Metaflow also provides an Airflow backend, which I sort of wonder in that case why bother with Metaflow?
A while ago I saw a promising Clojure project stepwise [0] which sounds pretty close to what you're describing. It not only allows you to define steps in code, but also implements cool stuff like ability to write conditions, error statuses and resources in a much-less verbose EDN instead of JSON. It also supports code reloading and offloading large payloads to S3.
Here's a nice article with code examples implementing a simple pipeline: https://www.quantisan.com/orchestrating-pizza-making-a-tutor....
kot-behemoth commented on Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse” blog.thunderbird.net/2025... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
I have not used Thunderbird in 15 years, but I'm desperate for a decent email client. I've used Spark, Mailspring, Airmail...but I keep coming back to the MacOS Mail app. Any active users of Thunderbird who chose it over the default Mac mail client? Does it have a unified inbox for all your accounts? Dark mode looks neat, at least.
macOS Mail app is still the best native e-mail client in my experience.
I have switched to Thunderbird full-time since I switched to Linux. Can confirm it supports unified inbox.
kot-behemoth commented on Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes github.com/czhu12/canine... · Posted by u/czhu12
dokku is a minimal PaaS that can also run on a VPS. There's a dokku-scheduler-kubernetes:
https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes
But it doesn't have support Helm charts.
Cloud computing architecture > Delivery links to SaaS, DaaS, DaaS, PaaS, IaaS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing_architecture
Cloud-computing comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud-computing_comparison
Category:Cloud_platforms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cloud_platforms
awesome-selfhosted has a serverless / FaaS category that just links to awesome-sysadmin > PaaS: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#sof...
I’ve recently started an open-source self-hosted data platform (https://github.com/kot-behemoth/kitsunadata) with Dokku being a great initial deployment mode. It’s mature, simple to get started and has tons of docs / tutorials.
I collected a bunch of links while learning it, and launched https://github.com/kot-behemoth/awesome-dokku, as there wasn’t an “awesome” list.
Hope it helps someone!
I love working with neovim and i do all my programming with it for more than 20 years.
I often struggle to "move my life" to neovim. For example, task management apps are both on my phone, my laptop and web if i need them.
How do you guys work with neovim on other non-programming related tasks and still manage to keep everything in sync?
Obsidian.nvim (https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim) has been working really well for me. I use Obsidian mobile app (it’s not the best in this space, but still very good). And on my laptop, I’ve got neovim - getting to the daily note is one key combo. It’s also super fast and syncs using Obisidan Sync (or you can do your own).
I even started just writing the daily journal all in one file because that gives me that but it's starting to get a little big.