tylerjl

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by tylerjl 2mo ago
I've hosted and actively used my own email server for > 10 years and there are two things that are true at the same time: It is absolutely possible to host, use, and achieve decent deliverability with your own server. It takes work
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by tylerjl 3mo ago
It's interesting to contrast this announcement with a similar post from the CEO in 2022 [1]: those past layoffs had much more of a victim-of-circumstances tone as ZIRP was beginning to dry up, but apparently those "bad times"
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by tylerjl 4mo ago
Thanks for the kind words! Especially given how ubiquitous systemd is now, skilling up on the toolbox with commands like `systemd-analyze` and `systemctl list-timers` feels super valuable.
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by tylerjl 4mo ago
Hey everyone, author here. I spotted the hn traffic a little late but I'm happy for any feedback or comments and will try and address the top-level comments as I can. (Aside: I wrote this article early last month but it caught on only
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by tylerjl 7mo ago
Oh hey, I'm the author. Happy to chat about the post if anyone wants to. (Also the title here probably needs the leading "This" to make sense)
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by tylerjl 8mo ago
https://blog.tjll.net/
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by tylerjl 11mo ago
Another sort-of-recent development in the space has made self-hosting dramatically more accessible: even though hardware costs were reasonable before, they're now _very_ reasonable and also resource-efficient. Repurposing an old tower
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by tylerjl 1y ago
One convenience of journald is that it exposes a single place to plug in log collection for observability tooling opentelemetry-collector, promtail, and so on have native plugins for it, which makes aggregation easier to setup Most tools ha
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by tylerjl 1y ago
Hi, author here. The title is intentionally a little attention-grabbing hyperbole but I've appreciated the discussion and feedback about the post. Thanks for reading!
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by tylerjl 3y ago
I loved this game growing up, I'm definitely going to give this a try. As a minor observation, I'm pretty (pleasantly) surprised that the project provides a NixOS package for the application. As somebody who tends to flit between
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by tylerjl 3y ago
https://blog.tjll.net/ The posts that made it to the top of HN (that I can recall at this moment) 35 Million Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx ( https://blog.tjll.net/reverse-proxy-hot-dog-eating-contest
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by tylerjl 3y ago
Slightly off-topic, but my ChatGPT instincts always tend to fire whenever I read copy that concludes with the formula, “Ultimately…” or “Overall…”. I wonder how much (if any) of this landing page was GPT generated.
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by tylerjl 4y ago
It's kind of hard to fully appreciate how powerful polymode is without actually _using_ it. When you use an editor that can mostly-understand the syntax behind markup like fenced markdown code blocks like this: ```ruby puts "Hi&qu
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by tylerjl 4y ago
That's a great plan! I'll say that self-hosting may be _the_ number one thing I'm most passionate about due to concerns similar to yours (privacy, ownership, and so on). I've self-hosted many of my own services for a ver
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by tylerjl 4y ago
> [...] am I understanding correctly that nix could be used instead of packer to generate a vm image/template for proxmox(or whatever hypervisor)? That's correct, although as you mention later, it's limited to NixOS. It&#x
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by tylerjl 4y ago
It's a good question, and a very mature/well-engineered Docker dev environment probably gets you near-parity with an equivalent nix setup. That said, my reasons are: - Although not _all_ of our projects need nix builds in the end,
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by tylerjl 4y ago
> I would love to see a discussion from somebody who really likes Nix on why it isn't ready for prime time yet/just play devil's advocate aloud on why it isn't the greatest thing since sliced bread. Top reasons in my
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by tylerjl 4y ago
I think the nix community is doing an increasingly-better job at addressing several outstanding issues, and although the OP link resolves one of them - the getting-started experience - the "why" that you highlight here is still a
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by tylerjl 4y ago
In your specific case - a _channel_ versus a flake _input_ - consider how you're tracking your system configuration. If you have an /etc/nixos/configuration.nix, then your system can be reconstituted _only_ if you have t
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by tylerjl 4y ago
Apologies if this is only tangentially related, but it's a thought I've often had: When I went through my university degree (which, admittedly, was over a decade ago), the skills and/or training for the day-to-day tools of so
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by tylerjl 4y ago
Thank you, that's very kind! There's a reason I included Corey's name in my hastily cobbled-together skeleton meme [1]. Hopefully my writing achieves that level of technical approachability. [1]: https://blog.tjll.
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by tylerjl 4y ago
Damn. This is probably worth swapping out k6 for if I manage to pull off a second set of benchmarks. Thanks for the heads-up.
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by tylerjl 4y ago
This is hard because while, yes, some platform with less potential for jitter and/or noisy neighbors would help eliminate outside influence on the metrics, I think it's also valuable to benchmark these in a scenario that I would a
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by tylerjl 4y ago
Correct. Maybe it blows my credibility out of the water and I'll be shamed for life, who knows
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by tylerjl 4y ago
That's very kind of you to say, thank you!
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by tylerjl 4y ago
This is - along with some reverse proxy settings tweaks - one of the variables I'd be keen to test in the future, since it's probably _the_ most common delta against my tests versus real-world applications.
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by tylerjl 4y ago
FWIW I'm a big fan of HAProxy as well, but I was just constrained by the sheer volume of testing and how rigorous I intended to be. Maybe once my testing is a little more generalized I can fan out to additional proxies like HAProxy wit
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by tylerjl 4y ago
Hey y'all, author here. Traffic/feedback/questions are coming in hot, as HN publicity tends to engender, but I'm happy to answer questions or discuss the findings generally here if you'd like (I'm looking throu
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by tylerjl 4y ago
Thanks, Matt! I've pushed the revised section measuring sendfile and metrics changes, so those should be accurate now. Phew. Caches are purged, my errors are fixed. I can rest finally. If folks have questions about anything, I'm h
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by tylerjl 4y ago
Scoped down to the problems that nix solves, I get the same vibes using nix as I did in the early days of docker. It solves painful problems, with a community and suite of tools large enough to be useful, and people who have paid the initia

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