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usrme commented on Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments dagger.io/... · Posted by u/ahamez

9dev · 6 days ago

Maybe it’s just me, but these sample workflows don’t look less complicated, just another kind of complex? If you’re already heavily using CUE in your project this lateral complexity shift might make sense, but I don’t see why I would start using it…

usrme · 5 days ago

Like my guy 'diarrhea' already echoed: using CUE absolutely does not make sense at a small scale; just write your YAML and get on with your day. We were using it to generate dozens upon dozens of GitHub Actions workflows from what was essentially a single source of truth, and because CUE can export to JSON too then that single source of truth could then easily be leveraged to provide other input files to be used elsewhere.

usrme commented on Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments dagger.io/... · Posted by u/ahamez

Xiol · 6 days ago

Do you have any more details on using Cue with GHA? I've also looked at Dagger and been quite disappointed with it (and their terrible documentation).

usrme · 6 days ago

When I got started it was much more difficult as you had to do a lot of manual work to get things started, and you really had to believe the promises that CUE offered (which I did...), but nowadays they've made so many steps in the right direction that getting something going is far quicker!

Here are a few links to whet your appetite:

- https://cue.dev/docs/getting-started-with-github-actions-cue...

- https://cue.dev/docs/drying-up-github-actions-workflows/

- https://cue.dev/docs/spotting-errors-earlier-github-actions-...

Definitely read through the CUE documentation (https://cuelang.org/docs/), watch their YouTube videos (https://www.youtube.com/@cuelang/videos), and join the community Slack channel (https://cuelang.org/community/). I've gotten a lot of help in the Slack from both enthusiastic community members and from the developers themselves whenever I've gotten stuck.

usrme commented on Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments dagger.io/... · Posted by u/ahamez

usrme · 6 days ago

Dagger was something I looked into two or so years ago before they got consumed by the LLM and AI agent hype, and while the promise of being able to run the exact CI workflows locally seemed excellent, it seemed that there's basically no way be a Dagger user without buying into their Dagger Cloud product.

I ended up opting for CUE and GitHub Actions, and I'm glad I did as it made everything much, much simpler.

usrme commented on Show HN: ReadyKit – Superfast SaaS Starter with Multi-Tenant Workspaces readykit.dev/... · Posted by u/level09

usrme · 12 days ago

I wasn't able to see some example images or a demo video. That would be great to have before setting things up.

usrme commented on Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads toolbrew.co/... · Posted by u/andreisergo

kimbler · 3 months ago

I do a similar thing with https://www.thateasy.me/ I use it to test the latest coding/automation tools. I think I prefer your design :)

usrme · 3 months ago

I've been wanting to create a similar holiday optimizer tool myself, but what you've done is marvelous! Do you take requests for new countries? I see that you're using https://date.nager.at/ as the source and country is listed, so perhaps it's easily doable?

usrme commented on Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please blog.yossarian.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/woodruffw

TheDong · 3 months ago

Wanna DRY out your github actions yaml?

Generate it from Dhall, or cue, or python, or some real language that supports actual abstractions.

If your problem is you want to DRY out yaml, and you use more yaml features to do it, you now have more problems, not fewer.

usrme · 3 months ago

Seconded. I've had huge success with generating workflows with CUE. Would definitely recommend it to anyone struggling with YAML.

usrme commented on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami community.broadcom.com/ta... · Posted by u/zdkaster

prmoustache · 4 months ago

Is "brownout" a common or standard term in the industry? First time I see it.

usrme · 4 months ago

There was actually a really terrible brown-out by Poetry (a Python dependency management and packaging tool) where they introduced sporadic failures to people's CI/CD systems: https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/pull/6297

usrme commented on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami community.broadcom.com/ta... · Posted by u/zdkaster

zdkaster · 4 months ago

The list of images for the first brownout: external-dns, Kafka, Memcached, WordPress, Grafana, Cassandra, Prometheus, OpenLDAP, Thanos, Python.

usrme · 4 months ago

Thanks for mentioning these! Do you know what are the official channels they're doing the announcements in? In the post they just mention the word "usual" with no clarification.

usrme commented on The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami community.broadcom.com/ta... · Posted by u/zdkaster

brewmarche · 4 months ago

Anyone know what happens to their Helm charts? As far as I know they remain available but do they work with non-Bitnami images? Can I use the official redis image instead of bitnami/redis with the Bitnami redis chart for example?

usrme · 4 months ago

This is covered in the official GitHub issue: https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164

Q: What will happen to the existing OCI Helm charts? A: The already packaged Helm charts will remain available at docker.io/bitnamicharts as OCI artifacts, but they will no longer receive updates. Deploying these charts will not work out-of-the-box unless you override the bundled images with valid ones. *except for the BSI images included in the free community-tier subset.

usrme commented on I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files anuraag2601.github.io/gem... · Posted by u/anuraag2601

BuildTheRobots · 5 months ago

I've found some of my interactions with Gemini Pro 2.5 to be extremely surreal.

I asked it to help me turn a 6 page wall of acronyms into a CV tailored to a specific job I'd seen and the response from Gemini was that I was over qualified, it was under paid and that really, I was letting myself down. It was surprisingly brutal about it.

I found a different job that although I really wanted, felt I was underqualified for. I only threw it at Gemini as a moment of 3am spite, thinking it'd give me another reality check, this time in the opposite direction. Instead it hyped me up, helped me write my CV to highlight how their wants overlapped with my experience, and I'm now employed in what's turning out to be the most interesting job of my career with exciting tech and lovely people.

I found the whole experience extremely odd. and never expected it to actually argue with or reality check me. Very glad it did though.

usrme · 5 months ago

I would be really interested to see what your prompt was!