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New comment by evertheylen in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

evertheylen — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:15:02 +0000

Yes! But I'm assuming it will prevent me from upgrading to Postgres 19 in the future.

New comment by evertheylen in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

evertheylen — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:26:36 +0000

From what I can find Postgres 17 [1] introduced incremental backups to pg_basebackup, refined in 18, but nowhere near the full featureset of pgBackRest. Is that what you meant? Having builtin incremental replication to a S3-compatible storage would be great.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/17.0/#:~:text=pg%5Fb...

New comment by evertheylen in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

evertheylen — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:27:27 +0000

Ah, sad to read this. Does anyone know of good alternatives?

New comment by evertheylen in "Solidjs releases 2.0 beta – The is Over"

evertheylen — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:34:50 +0000

Lots of cool new ideas like:

- Async is first‑class

- Optimistic primitives (createOptimistic, createOptimisticStore)

- A more predictable scheduler

- And much more!

Solidjs releases 2.0 beta – The is Over

evertheylen — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:34:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/solidjs/solid/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245153

Points: 3

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New comment by evertheylen in "OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)"

evertheylen — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:39:56 +0000

It's just OpenStreetMap, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute

New comment by evertheylen in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

evertheylen — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:25:25 +0000

> Maintaining a data center is much more about solving real-world challenges. The cloud requires expertise in company-specific APIs and billing systems. A data center requires knowledge of Watts, bits, and FLOPs. I know which one I rather think about.

I find this to be applicable on a smaller scale too! I'd rather setup and debug a beefy Linux VPS via SSH than fiddle with various propietary cloud APIs/interfaces. Doesn't go as low-level as Watts, bits and FLOPs but I still consider knowledge about Linux more valuable than knowing which Azure knobs to turn.

New comment by evertheylen in "Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”"

evertheylen — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:23:18 +0000

Not really, I used it to develop against a "real" postgres database for a node backend app. It worked fine and made it pretty easy to spin up a development/CI environment anywhere you want. Only when inserting large amounts of data you start to notice it is slower than native postgres. I had to stop using it because we required the postgis extension (although there is some movement on that front!).

New comment by evertheylen in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

evertheylen — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:31:36 +0000

Here in Belgium I have the impression there's steady progress towards such a system: https://wero-wallet.eu

New comment by evertheylen in "Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers"

evertheylen — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:06:08 +0000

This is actually how GTFS (a standard format for public transit data) works: https://gtfs.org/documentation/schedule/reference/#stop_time... . Especially sleeper trains can get weird with 30+ hours. But I don't think it's wise to show that to the user

New comment by evertheylen in "NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times"

evertheylen — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:40:43 +0000

If you're on Linux, I've tried to build an easy yet secure way to isolate your system from your coding projects with containers. See https://github.com/evertheylen/probox

New comment by evertheylen in "I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance"

evertheylen — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:19:28 +0000

Interesting to see Marko and Solid topping the performance metrics. Ryan Carniato* was a core team member of Marko and started Solid. I wouldn't be surprised if SolidStart can eventually lower its bundle size further.

*) https://github.com/ryansolid

New comment by evertheylen in "Passt – Plug a Simple Socket Transport"

evertheylen — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:42:16 +0000

Great piece of software. For me its killer feature is automatically passing through exposed ports in a container, so you don't have to recreate the container with different -p options. (See https://evertheylen.eu/p/probox-intro/#network)

New comment by evertheylen in "Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments"

evertheylen — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 05:56:44 +0000

I always like to see new projects using containers. Two questions:

- how is your devbox.json file different from a Dockerfile/Containerfile?

- does your project attempt to provide any isolation security-wise?

New comment by evertheylen in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

evertheylen — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:00:01 +0000

To add to the article: systemd integration works in the other way too! Running systemd in a Docker container is a pain. It's much easier in Podman: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/04/24/how-to-run-sys...

(Most people use containers in a limited way, where they should do just one thing and shouldn't require systemd. OTOH I run them as isolated developer containers, and it's just so much easier to run systemd in the container as the OS expects.)

New comment by evertheylen in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

evertheylen — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:23:19 +0000

Yeah props to the `pasta` tool, it solves a specific problem really well.

Nice script! I considered a similar approach that's based on "magic" files in the filesystem before, but it was difficult to get the security right. In your case I believe a malicious script can just overwrite .podman/env and it will be sourced by the host the next time you start the container.

I'm happy to discuss this more, feel free to reach out at evertheylen@gmail.com. I'm particularly interested in trying automated ways to try to break out of a container (like https://github.com/brompwnie/botb), this would benefit any containerization project.

New comment by evertheylen in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

evertheylen — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:00:52 +0000

I actually run code-server (derivative of VSCode) inside the container! But I agree that there can be many gotchas, which is why I try to collect as much feedback as possible.

New comment by evertheylen in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

evertheylen — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:27:36 +0000

I agree with you that VMs would provide better isolation. But I do think containers (or other kernel techniques like SELinux) can still provide quite decent isolation with a very limited performance/ease-of-use cost. Much better than nothing I'd say?

New comment by evertheylen in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

evertheylen — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:03:42 +0000

If you are on Linux, I'm writing a little tool to securely isolate projects from eachother with podman: https://github.com/evertheylen/probox. The UX is an important aspect which I've spent quite some time on.

I use it all the time, but I'm still looking for people to review its security.

New comment by evertheylen in "Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published"

evertheylen — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:53:00 +0000

I do too, but I found it non-trivial to actually secure the podman container. I described my approach here [1]. I'm very interested to hear your approach. Any specific podman flags or do you use another tool like toolbx/distrobox?

[1]: https://evertheylen.eu/p/probox-intro/