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New comment by evertheylen in "Devvm.dev: One VM for every project"

evertheylen — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:18:12 +0000

It makes sense, but a good system where you can say "give this VM access to repo X, branch Y, and server Z for the next 4 hours" without leaking any secrets into the VM would be a major improvement already.

New comment by evertheylen in "Devvm.dev: One VM for every project"

evertheylen — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:16:46 +0000

I see. But then I have to debug some failing CI pipeline and the agent is quite good at going through the logs, so I give in and `gh auth login` anyway...

New comment by evertheylen in "Devvm.dev: One VM for every project"

evertheylen — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:45:09 +0000

Add me to the list, although I use podman containers (https://github.com/evertheylen/probox). I find that the hard part is not restricting the container/VM, but to make it "easy" to do things in the container that require something protected. How will you commit? Where does your agent run, and can it access github? How will you deploy? How will you SSH to a server?

Happy to hear what other people are thinking. It seems like putting an intercepting HTTP proxy is getting popular in other projects.

New comment by evertheylen in "How We Pushed CDC into Postgres"

evertheylen — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:08:46 +0000

I see you are a co-founder! Thanks for pg_lake. I am actually already heavily using it, was just interested to read about CDC in the context of pg_lake.

New comment by evertheylen in "How We Pushed CDC into Postgres"

evertheylen — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:48:46 +0000

I'm interested in pg_lake so I wanted to check out your link, but it seems to be internal to snowflake?

New comment by evertheylen in "Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack"

evertheylen — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:41:10 +0000

Could you not use something like https://github.com/superfly/tokenizer for AWS? They list it as an explicit example, but I have little experience with AWS.

New comment by evertheylen in "Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack"

evertheylen — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:11:53 +0000

Once again, I ask myself: should we start "shaming" developers who don't use isolation? It still seems I am the exception and most people run their dev environment with full permissions. Why?

I also wrote an article (https://evertheylen.eu/p/shame-devs-without-isolation/) to flesh out my thoughts, but I'd be really happy to discuss this in the comments.

New comment by evertheylen in "Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland"

evertheylen — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:42:07 +0000

It's not as weird as you might think: laptops may have touchscreens (which can be multi-touch) on top of the "normal" cursor. IIRC, X.org can't really handle such cases cleanly.

New comment by evertheylen in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"

evertheylen — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:24:03 +0000

Also highly relevant project: Cruller, also uses the pre-rewrite Bun codebase but focuses only on the runtime part for production.

Link: https://ziggit.dev/t/cruller-buns-zig-runtime-continued-on-z...

Discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017344

New comment by evertheylen in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

evertheylen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:11:03 +0000

Running systemd inside a container + automatic SELinux integration

Should we start shaming developers who don't use isolation?

evertheylen — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:52:09 +0000

Article URL: https://evertheylen.eu/p/shame-devs-without-isolation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257275

Points: 2

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New comment by evertheylen in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

evertheylen — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:39:53 +0000

I rely on podman for my "devcontainers": https://github.com/evertheylen/probox. If anyone can point me to the weak points in my setup I'd appreciate it!

New comment by evertheylen in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

evertheylen — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:25:15 +0000

If you're looking for a language that aims to solve the "two-language problem" like Mojo, but want something more open, more mature and less influenced by VC funding, check out Julia: https://julialang.org/

New comment by evertheylen in "I am worried about Bun"

evertheylen — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:18:39 +0000

This is cool! But AFAIK bun promises to be a one-stop-shop for all your JS/TS dev needs, while Perry is "just" a compiler from Typescript to native executables.

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...