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New comment by sorentwo in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

sorentwo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:00:44 +0000

The moment that OpenCode, after helping fix a Dockerfile issue, decided it was time to deploy to prod without asking for consent, I was out.

Iran's Sea Mines Are One of Its Most Powerful Weapons

sorentwo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:50:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-sea-mines-strait-of-hormuz-85e623b7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347717

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban

sorentwo — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:07:15 +0000

Article URL: https://oban.pro/articles/bridging-with-oban

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072539

Points: 137

# Comments: 54

New comment by sorentwo in "Vim 9.2"

sorentwo — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:12:31 +0000

Nearly this, but using ghostty instead of tmux. You don’t get the remote connection aspect of tmux, but for splitting/zooming/preserving windows it is fantastic. The best part is you can configure natural shortcuts rather than using a leader for everything.

New comment by sorentwo in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

sorentwo — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:07:02 +0000

There is one for elixir that is _mostly_ compatible with oban-py. Full compatibility, and potentially native hosting, are goals before 1.0

https://github.com/oban-bg/oban_web

New comment by sorentwo in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

sorentwo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:46:19 +0000

With a typical Redis or RabbitMQ backed durable queue you’re not guaranteed to get the job back at all after an unexpected shutdown. That quote is also a little incorrect—producer liveness is tracked the same way, it’s purely how “orphaned” jobs are rescued that is different.

New comment by sorentwo in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

sorentwo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:41:21 +0000

You can have jobs that run as long as you like. The difference is purely in how quickly they are restored after a crash or a shutdown that doesn’t wait long enough.

New comment by sorentwo in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

sorentwo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:06:32 +0000

This is absolutely true (except we went OSS + Web initially, Pro came later). You were an inspiration, always helpful in discussion, and definitely paved the way for this business model.

New comment by sorentwo in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

sorentwo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:41:25 +0000

> The vast, vast majority of Python libraries are not async-friendly and most still rely on the GIL. On the other hand, Celery has absolutely no asyncio support at all, which sets the pro feature apart.

That's great advice. Wish we'd been in contact before =)

New comment by sorentwo in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

sorentwo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:36:22 +0000

Transactions around fetching/updating aren't trivial, that's true. However, the work that you're doing _is_ regular activity because it's part of your application logic. That's data about the state of your overall system and it is extremely helpful for it to stay with the app (not to mention how nice it makes testing).

Regarding overall throughput, we've written about running one million jobs a minute [1] on a single queue, and there are numerous companies running hundreds of millions of jobs a day with oban/postgres.

[1]: https://oban.pro/articles/one-million-jobs-a-minute-with-oba...

New comment by sorentwo in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

sorentwo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:23:43 +0000

There are other projects that implement the ideas in OSS, but that's the same in Elixir. Not that we necessarily invented DAGs/workflows, but our durable implementation on the Elixir side predates DBOS by several years. We've considered it an add-on to what Oban offers, rather than the entire product.

Having an entirely open source offering and selling support would be an absolute dream. Maybe we'll get there too.

New comment by sorentwo in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

sorentwo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:01:39 +0000

> It supports workflows, rate limiting, unique jobs, bulk operations, transactional enqueuing, etc. Why not move these things to the OSS version to be competitive with existing options, and focus on dedicated support and more traditional "enterprise" features, which absolutely are worth $135/month (the Oban devs provide world-class support for issues).

We may well move some of those things to the OSS version, depending on interest, usage, etc. It's much easier to make things free than the other way around. Some Pro only features in Elixir have moved to OSS previously, and as a result of this project some additional functionality will also be moved.

Support only options aren't going to cut it in our experience; but maybe that'll be different with Python.

> There are many more options available in the Python ecosystem than Elixir, so you're competing against Temporal, Trigger, Prefect, Dagster, Airflow, etc etc.

There's a lot more of everything available in the Python ecosystem =)

New comment by sorentwo in "Oban Comes to Python"

sorentwo — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:12:04 +0000

> Oban has been a lifesaver for me and it is the tool I miss the most from the Elixir ecosystem when doing work in Python

That's wonderful to hear! Hopefully you can make use of Oban in both places now =)

> I have one question: are there any plans for interop between Oban and the new Django Tasks[1]?

There aren't any plans at this point, but it's certainly possible.

Show HN: Oban for Python (Job Orchestration Framework)

sorentwo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:51:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/oban-bg/oban-py

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46705002

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sorentwo in "Oban Comes to Python"

sorentwo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:37:27 +0000

Pleased to see this posted! A lot of design time and effort behind this project (something we'll be speaking about this year). Happy to answer any questions people may have.

New comment by sorentwo in "Bison return to Illinois' Kane County after 200 years"

sorentwo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:54:39 +0000

Seconded. I was going to say the exact same thing. Brilliant thought exercise that I still think about on a weekly basis 20 years later.

New comment by sorentwo in "JavaScript engines zoo – Compare every JavaScript engine"

sorentwo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:17:17 +0000

Before looking at the zoo I figured there would be a dozen or so engines compared. Seeing the actual comparison is astounding!

The amount of work just to aggregate and compare is admirable, let alone the effort behind the engines themselves.

Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? (2017)

sorentwo — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 21:48:58 +0000

Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2017/05/song-repetition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816262

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by sorentwo in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

sorentwo — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:46:04 +0000

It is an old US military term that means “F*ked Up Beyond All Recognition”

New comment by sorentwo in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

sorentwo — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:34:48 +0000

> Just as a whole the Erlang and Elixir primitives allow oban to be built truly in the most retarded, obvious way and get away with it.

Maybe it is obvious in retrospect…