Hacker News: marktolson

New comment by marktolson in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

marktolson — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:59:43 +0000

Genuinely impressed with this! Thank you!

New comment by marktolson in "SQL Studio"

marktolson — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:49:45 +0000

Crashes on Mac trying to open up a fairly small workspace (max 97,000 rows).

New comment by marktolson in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

marktolson — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:55:15 +0000

Looks good but there is no way I'm installing powershell as a dependency.

New comment by marktolson in "N8n raises $180M"

marktolson — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:26:45 +0000

I represent one of those stars. N8N is an amazing system. I use it daily and have seen incredible progress made consistently over the past few years. Currently my team use it for processing millions of workflows each year on a very small server and it hasn't cost us a cent so I would give them more than 1 star if I could. I wouldn't build a new system without it to be honest.

New comment by marktolson in "Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers"

marktolson — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 01:48:11 +0000

Not sure if you read the description but I clearly stated that I wanted no middleman, so I'm not sure how this solves my use case. Also not sure how it requires the same amount of time, and 'manual intervention every time'? You provision a remote server, install docker then update the local config file and it's done. One line deployments everytime. And why would I update the code inside the container when you need a build process to install dependencies? If you want to update code while the app is running then restart, then docker is not the right solution.

Additionally there are a million different and better ways to deploy services, this suits the use case I described.

New comment by marktolson in "Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers"

marktolson — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:28:12 +0000

Better off trying to get it brownlit.

New comment by marktolson in "Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers"

marktolson — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:04:29 +0000

It's not based on k8s, it's just pushing your local app to a server and spinning up a conainer with one CLI call.

New comment by marktolson in "Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers"

marktolson — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:01:50 +0000

Here is my main use case. I have lightweight services that I need to update and deploy regularly (until I movee to K8s or a proper production env). Using pooshit, I can push my entire local dev folder to a remote server then destroy the old image, rebuild the new image and spin up a new container with one call. Your config file contains your remote config. You need nothing in between you and your remote server and it only relies on SSH and docker, nothing else, no middleman, repos, and no deployment containers running on your VM.

New comment by marktolson in "Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers"

marktolson — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:54:50 +0000

Probably pretty similar except you get to just write "pooshit" instead.

New comment by marktolson in "Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers"

marktolson — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:49:44 +0000

Yes.

New comment by marktolson in "Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers"

marktolson — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:49:25 +0000

Because I don't want to do this: https://mutagen.io/documentation/introduction/getting-starte...

Show HN: Pooshit – Sync local code to remote Docker containers

marktolson — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:46:19 +0000

Pronounced Push-It....

I'm a lazy developer for the most part, so this is for people like me. Sometimes I just want my local code running in live remote containers quickly, without building images and syncing to cloud docker repos or setting up git workflows or any of the other draining ways to get your code running remotely.

With pooshit (and a simple config file), you can simply push your local dev files to a remote folder on a VM then automatically remove relevant running containers, then build and run an updated container with one command line call.

It works well with reverse proxies like nginx or caddy as you can specify the docker run arguments in the pooshit_config files.

https://github.com/marktolson/pooshit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255337

Points: 55

# Comments: 49

New comment by marktolson in "Pooshit – sync local code to remote Docker containers"

marktolson — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:20:11 +0000

Pronounced Push-It....

It works well with reverse proxies like nginx or caddy as you can specify the docker run arguments in the pooshit_config files.

Pooshit – sync local code to remote Docker containers

marktolson — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:20:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/marktolson/pooshit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45217736

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by marktolson in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

marktolson — Mon, 26 May 2025 04:09:53 +0000

Oh man please make this open source! I'd love to host it in a container.

New comment by marktolson in "Sail-Trim Simulator"

marktolson — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:37:31 +0000

I like the idea but I don't get this at all. Shouldn't the speed change based on the mainsail trim relative to the heading? I pointed the boat dead downwind, eased the mainsail all the way out and the speed is 0 kn. I can't even see the value for the trim, just speed, but you get speed from correctly trimmed sails.

New comment by marktolson in "CSS Hell"

marktolson — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:47:36 +0000

I thought the site was broken for the exact same reason. Instead of being a troubleshooting / practice type test it's more of a puzzle that I do not care to solve.

New comment by marktolson in "My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback"

marktolson — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:25:14 +0000

I love it! I'm going to show this to my 6 yo tonight. I know for a fact she'll enjoy it.

New comment by marktolson in "Launch HN: Soundry AI (YC W24) – Music sample generator for music creators"

marktolson — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:11:28 +0000

Looks good but having to download, then sign up just to see the pricing is infuriating.

New comment by marktolson in "Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year"

marktolson — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:15:19 +0000

https://docs.plane.so/self-hosting/self-hosting