Hacker News: jitl

New comment by jitl in "Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects"

jitl — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:42:13 +0000

my interest in s3 is for how easy it is - just need HTTP. mounting a filesystem and worrying about filesystem level locks is more complicated.

New comment by jitl in "The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded"

jitl — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:45:11 +0000

what was the Nix schism? Did something like systemd happen? or like, Determinate/commercial vs Not? Or more like USA culture wars / code-of-conduct flamers (i vaguely recall some drama around a conference sponsor)?

anyways, i hope there’s a path to some kind of redemption and reconciliation in the future for the community. it sounds like it’s been Bad for years at this point.

New comment by jitl in "Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language"

jitl — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:36:07 +0000

maybe wait until you have something to share before Show HN? overall your work seems like a cool thing that i’d like to look at in a few months once there’s more substantial education stuff to read about it.

New comment by jitl in "Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language"

jitl — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:32:29 +0000

i poked around in there, under choreographic programming there’s one example of something not in the language as a discarded idea.

if you claim X and Y make us cool and different, then you should document X and Y in your readme. don’t tell me something is the star, and then hide it away. this is baffling to me.

New comment by jitl in "Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language"

jitl — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:03:11 +0000

Your README and docs don’t describe any of the interesting or unique things here. You cover `if` in README but not choreographic programming or perceus. Did i miss some big link?

Where’s the cool stuff?

New comment by jitl in "Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects"

jitl — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:34:28 +0000

it’s all relative and it really depends on your scale. if your usage fits in the included compute and request count you get for $60/yr it’s absolutely gonna be cheaper. on the other hand, you can run EKS clusters in usw2, use2, apne1, apne2, euc1 for $8600/yr based on my napkin math. to me that does not sound expensive, i work at a company where $8600 is pocket change. but $8600 is much larger than $60/yr for region: earth.

New comment by jitl in "Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects"

jitl — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:30:48 +0000

it’s relying on consistency w conditional writes

New comment by jitl in "Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects"

jitl — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:14:46 +0000

sure, but s3 is far easier to buy and also far more reliable than typical distributed systems coordinator stuff like etcd/zookeeper/consul. every major cloud offers it, and there’s several decent open source options.

New comment by jitl in "Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects"

jitl — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:09:31 +0000

> cloudflare

the stuff is great when it works but Durable Objects can be quite expensive. whenever i get too excited about em all it takes is a little time trying to price it out to calm me down.

> do i need to buy bare metal

my first idea would be to run celld on AWS Kubernetes deployed to local zones https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/auto-local-...

it’s not “region: earth” like cloudflare but perhaps worth the trade off.

New comment by jitl in "Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects"

jitl — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:55:04 +0000

bummer this expects NFS; this is all a brand new implementation vs what Cloudflare runs internally in production for DOs? I can’t imagine all your workerds share a single global NFS… What would a more realistic workerd with DO support look like?

ah well, we have celld!

New comment by jitl in "Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects"

jitl — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:29:12 +0000

what is the difference between celld and Cloudflare Workers open source version workerd?

https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

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

jitl — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:22:15 +0000

yeah, or when a dev starts the local development server (unless that server is containerized).

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

jitl — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:56:37 +0000

"make no mistakes" is not the "real solution"

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

jitl — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:29:55 +0000

yeah but they can just put the dropper, etc in index.js, so that it runs at import time rather than at install time, no? i guess first-install time is often a privileged developer machine, and will execute in a "server"-like runtime such as Node, Bun, Deno. but blocking preinstall scripts is basic first aid...

New comment by jitl in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

jitl — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:23:06 +0000

i think “i added ocaml” is much bigger innovation token spend then the styling question

New comment by jitl in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

jitl — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:22:18 +0000

i think wayland set linux desktop back 10 years. it’s finally coming up to parity with X11. but basic stuff like “get the latest release of of consumer GUI app $foo” is still weirdly mired in odd political plays between flat pack people, distros, and the actual devs. at least audio finally seems to be solved with pipe wire!

New comment by jitl in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

jitl — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:18:29 +0000

JaneStreet, see post title.

New comment by jitl in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

jitl — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:14:57 +0000

No. 98% of typescript specific syntax can be replaced with U+0020 SPACE to yield runnable JavaScript. The runtime semantics of the two languages are congruent. the same cannot be said for any other language im aware of.

New comment by jitl in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

jitl — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:55:50 +0000

> far outperforms the likes of kitty and ghostty

this is not true on my machine, at least for my usual benchmark Doom-fire-zig[1]. on said benchmark, ghostty 1.3.1 runs at about 350fps, wezterm 20260713-212414-b3255666 runs at 415fps, Terminal.app runs at 100fps, iterm2 3.6.11 runs at 80fps.

[1]: https://github.com/const-void/DOOM-fire-zig

New comment by jitl in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

jitl — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:57:10 +0000

Bring back grid Expose and grid virtual desktops!