This looks … great.

I use helix btw

Thank thee

Hmm, i tried to make a joke about thanking both parent posters, which makes them a plural noun, which makes thou wrong as it is only used for singular.

But i guess i was wrong in an orthogonal dimension as well.

Ok, i’m on board. Thank thou two

Yeah, but I think it is speaking in first person, about itself. So it should be “I saw” and “I think”, regardless of its pronouns in third person.

Yea, but socket is not a file. Maybe if you stretch the definition.

Well in any case, when people say that linux is great because everything is a file, they either mean that:

• they can edit configuration of most things with a text editor, or that
• in bash (and other shells) it is easy to work with byte streams, piping them from one process to another and compose complex behaviour from simple commands.

It could be a process, which you can talk to only via an IPC call. For example, dbus

I’m currently looking into Concourse.

It does have steeper-than-average learning curve, but I really like that it has well-defined fundamentals (resources, jobs, tasks) and isolation with OCI containers. Before I adopt it fully, I want it to run my nix flake dev shell.

I wouldn’t say so - it’s not streaming app views from the server, it provides containers for apps, segmented into “grains”. So each open document gets it’s own container. Other than that, it’s just normal web apps (like immich or seafile).

For example, ether pad (document editor) is a) packaged to be single-click deployable on sandstorm (this is similar to dokploy), but also b) modified so that it runs each document as a “grain”.

In sandstorm, “grain” is some chunk of data + an instance of the app running. So when you open a document, it will spawn a new process for it on the server and attach the data needed to that process (similar to how you would attach volumes to docker containers). This grain is isolated from other open documents, which is good for security, but also good for development:

• apps don’t need to handle the organization or storage of documents (they just write to a dir and sandstorm associates it with the grain),
• apps don’t need to handle user auth or permissions,

The revolutionary thing about sandstorm is not all that much about administering hosting as it is about integrating deeply with applications.

My matrix server is nearing 5 years old. I have federation disabled, because I don’t need that - we are using it as a family chat. sqlite database I’m using is now 2GB, but other than that it is working great.

I do acknowledge that I’m not leveraging the things matrix is designed for (federation, e2e encryption), but to be honest, it’s not really good at that.

Jellyfin, and yes it thinks its very cleaver with mumbling metadata.

Rust will take time - it has a few concept that I haven’t seen in javascript/python/java/C++ family of languages. But it gives “zero-cost abstractions” i.e. a way to write high-level code without any performance penalty. And it has great tooling and WASM support, which is what you’d be after.

But as I said, it is all not worth it now, just for this application.

From what I read, it could easily be a tauri app, without a backend: just index.html in your system’s webview.

I did also forget to say it does look very nice, with animations and proper polish!

If you do delve into improving the performance, I suggest using Rust and no_std crates for dealing with images, such as https://docs.rs/zune-jpeg/latest/zune_jpeg/.

It would probably take some time to get it working, but it would probably increase performance and support any format you can find a crate for. But it does not seem like it’s worth it.

I’ll add this to my list of “things I might to when I don’t have a side project to waste my time on” :D

If you are interested (and can pull together a bit of funding) I can look into how we could do this optimization in WASM.

It’s JavaScript.

And it is slow, but not as slow as I expected it to be. I’ve optimized a photo I’ve taken with my DSLR, 6.3MB, 24MP, JPEG. It has taken ~50sec on this phone, in Firefox.

I know, it’s a phone, but also, my phone can and does save, optimize, and apply filters to such images in <1sec.